ZAHRA AGA KHAN AB '94

France | Secretariat of the Aga Khan

Princess Zahra Aga Khan AB '94 is a member of the board of directors of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of development agencies that work to improve the welfare and prospects of people in over 30 countries around the world, particularly in Asia and Africa. She has policy and management responsibility for the health, education, and planning and building services companies of the AKDN and their institutions, working in 12 countries in the developing world. She is also involved in policy and strategy matters relating to the other development institutions of the AKDN.

Princess Zahra has worked within the AKDN since graduating from Harvard College in 1994. She is a trustee of the Aga Khan University, sits on the board of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, and works with various institutions supported by the Ismaili Muslim community in the areas of social and economic development.

Princess Zahra attended Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and received an AB cum laude in development studies from Harvard College. She also completed a four-month program at Massachusetts General Hospital to enhance her understanding of health care systems and the delivery of advanced medical care, as well as an executive finance course at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

FLAVIA B. ALMEIDA MBA '94

Brazil | Península Participações

Flavia Almeida MBA '94 is currently partner at Península Participações S.A. She is also a board member of BRF S.A., Carrefour S.A., Wine.com.br, and GAEC Educação S.A. Flavia served as a member of the Board of Overseers at Harvard University from 2011 to 2017. Prior to Península, Flavia was a partner and head of South America for the Monitor Group. She has also worked at Camargo Correa Group, where she was the head of the Holding of the Family (Participações Morro Vermelho S.A.), as well as a board member in many of its businesses. Prior to that, Flavia was a partner at McKinsey & Company, with significant experience in governance and strategy, working very intensively with family-controlled conglomerates. Flavia has a BBA degree from FGV–Fundação Getulio Vargas and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Flavia also serves in educational and arts non-profit organizations in Brazil.

TERESITA ALVAREZ-BJELLAND AB '76, MBA '79

Norway | Consultant

Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland AB '76, MBA '79 is an independent consultant and professional board member residing in Oslo, Norway. Her interests are specifically focused on education, cultural exchange, and human rights. She established and runs a nonprofit counseling bureau to advise students applying to universities in the UK and US. Her affiliations include tenures on the boards of directors of the Norwegian American Foundation in Oslo and Freedom Now in Washington, D.C. She also serves on Nordic Council of the UWC (United World College)—RCN, on the advisory board for the Kistefos Public Service Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School, and is the co-chair of the Cuban Studies Program Advisory Group at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Before turning her energy to the nonprofit sector, Alvarez-Bjelland held executive management positions with Estée Lauder, Bates Advertising, and Johnson Wax.

WENDY D. APPELBAUM KSGEE '03

South Africa | DeMorgenzon Estate

Wendy Appelbaum KSGEE '03 chairs De Morgenzon Estate, a wine farm and agricultural business in Stellenbosch.

Through the Wendy Appelbaum Foundation, her company initiates, selects, and drives programs mainly addressing the health and education interests and concerns of South African women.

Wendy holds various directorships, trusteeships, and is a member of numerous organizations registered both in South Africa and abroad, including the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, a post-graduate teaching hospital of the University of the Witwatersrand; the Donald Gordon Foundation, the largest private charitable foundation in Africa; and the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA).

She is a director of Sphere Holdings Ltd, a black empowerment company focused in the financial services and mining sectors, and a director of WESGRO (Western Cape Tourism, Trade & Investment).

Wendy is a member of Harvard University's Women's Leadership Board and Harvard's Global Advisory Council. Wendy is also a member of the International Women's Forum and board member of Synergos Africa. She was previously the Deputy-Chairman of Women's Investment Portfolio Limited (Wiphold Limited), the first women-controlled company to list on the JSE with then-assets in excess of R1 billion.

In 2006, Wendy was recognized as one of the Leading Women Entrepreneurs by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, an organization that honors and promotes female entrepreneurial excellence. In 2012, she received the International Women's Forum South Africa Excellence Award in recognition of a sterling contribution to business and community. Wendy was named the 2015 Forbes Businesswoman of the Year.

JOSEPH Y. BAE AB '94

New York | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Joseph Y. Bae AB '94 is the co-president and co-chief operating officer of KKR. He joined KKR in 1996. Most recently, he was the managing partner of KKR Asia and the global head of KKR's Infrastructure and Energy Real Asset businesses. He is the chairman of KKR's Asia and Americas Private Equity Investment Committees and also serves as a member of KKR's European Private Equity, Growth Equity, Energy, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Special Situations Investment Committees. He is also a member of KKR's Risk Management Committee and Inclusion and Diversity Council.

Bae is co-chair of Harvard's Asia-Pacific Campaign Committee and a member of the Campaign Steering Committee for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He serves as a charter trustee at Phillips Academy Andover. He is also a board member of the Asia Art Archive, The Asia Society, and Lincoln Center.

Bae is a 1990 graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and received an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1994.

HAKEEM BELO-OSAGIE MBA '80

Nigeria | Etisalat

Hakeem Belo-Osagie MBA '80 is chairman of the board of directors of Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Ltd., a mobile telephone operator doing business as Etisalat Nigeria. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Abuja Investment Company, and serves on the boards of Timbuktu Media and Metis Capital Partners as well as the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Belo-Osagie has been a key player in the Nigerian economy for over three decades, particularly in the energy, finance, and telecommunications sectors. A member of the Nigerian Bar Association, he started his career as a petroleum economist and a lawyer, working in the service of the federal government of Nigeria in various capacities in the energy sector. He subsequently worked in the petrochemicals division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation before resigning his appointment to set up CTIC, which became a leading energy consulting firm. He also served as chairman of the board of directors of the United Bank for Africa, one of the largest commercial banks in Nigeria, as well as founder and chairman of First Securities Discount House, Nigeria's leading money markets and treasury bill trading financial services firm.

MYMA BELO-OSAGIE LLM '78, SJD '85

Nigeria | Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie

Myma Belo-Osagie LLM '78, SJD '85 is senior partner with Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, a multi-specialization, full-service law firm geared to facilitate corporate and commercial business in Nigeria and throughout Africa. In addition to heading the firm's telecommunications, oil, and gas teams, her areas of specialization include corporate restructuring, acquisitions, foreign investment, regulatory communications, equity finance, and infrastructure projects, among many others.

Belo-Osagie assisted with the drafting of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003 and was retained by the federal government to assist with the drafting of Nigeria's downstream gas legislation. She has advised several local, regional, and international companies, organizations, institutions, and governments on a variety of transactions. She has been named a leading lawyer by Chambers Global for her corporate, mergers, and acquisition work; the IFLR1000 and Who's Who Legal for her project finance work; and the Legal 500 for her finance and telecommunications work.

Belo-Osagie sits on the board of directors of various companies and acts as a trustee on the board of several nonprofit organizations, including the African Leadership Foundation, the Growing Businesses Foundation, the African Wildlife Foundation, and the Art and Business Foundation.

Belo-Osagie received an LLB from the University of Ghana at Legon, BL degrees from the Ghana School of Law and the Nigerian Law School, and LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School.

LINCOLN E. BENET MBA '89

United Kingdom | Access Industries

Lincoln E. Benet MBA '89 is the chief executive officer of Access Industries, a privately held industrial group founded by Len Blavatnik MBA '89, with long-term holdings worldwide, spanning natural resources and chemicals; technology, media, and telecom; and real estate. Prior to joining Access Industries in 2006, Benet was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for 17 years in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, fixed income, and capital markets.

Benet is a board member of Clal Industries, LyondellBasell Industries, and Warner Music Group.

Benet received a BA summa cum laude in economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

NICOLAS BERGGRUEN

United States/Germany | Berggruen Holdings, Inc.

Nicolas Berggruen is the chairman of Berggruen Holdings, a private company which is the direct investment vehicle of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Trust. Berggruen Holdings has operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, as well as global real estate and financial investments. Prior to Berggruen Holdings, he worked for Bass Brothers Enterprises on the real estate side of this family-held investment firm, and for Jacobson & Company, a leveraged buyout company.

Berggruen is also the chairman of the Berggruen Institute, an independent, nonpartisan think tank engaged in issues of political governance, philosophy, and culture. He is a board director of Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Committed to leaving a legacy of art and architecture, Berggruen sits on the boards of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and he is a member of the International Councils for the Tate Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has collaborated on projects with such renowned architects as Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, and David Adjaye.

Berggruen studied at École Alsacienne in Paris before attending Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. He received a bachelor of science degree in finance and international business from New York University in 1981.

ELIF B. BILGI MBA '94

Turkey | Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Elif Bilgi is co-head of Global Capital Markets since June 2018. Elif joined the firm in 2010 as country executive of Turkey, headed CEEMEA Investment Banking and Global Sovereign Wealth Funds Coverage, was named co-head of Asia Pacific Global Corporate & Investment Banking in 2016.

Prior to that, she was the chairman of EFG Istanbul Securities, a company she founded.

In 2004, Elif was identified as one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

Elif holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations from Brown University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Elif is a member of the Supervisory Board of OMV Aktiengesellschaft. She is a trustee at Robert College. Elif is married to Paolo Zapparoli MBA ’94.

LEN BLAVATNIK MBA '89

United States/United Kingdom | Access Industries

Len Blavatnik MBA '89 is the founder and chairman of Access Industries, a privately held industrial group with global strategic investments in natural resources and chemicals, media and communications, venture capital, and real estate. Among its other investments, Access owns a significant stake in LyondellBasell Industries, the world's third-largest independent chemical company, and Warner Music Group, a leading global music company.

In addition to corporate directorships, Blavatnik is also engaged in numerous educational pursuits, sitting on the board of Tel Aviv University and the New York Academy of Sciences. An active philanthropist, Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have supported numerous leading educational, cultural, and charity institutions including Carnegie Hall, Tate, and Lincoln Center. In 2007, Blavatnik created the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists to acknowledge the excellence of noteworthy young scientists and engineers in the U.S.; in 2017, the Awards were further expanded to encompass the U.K. and Israel. In 2010, Blavatnik established the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Blavatnik was knighted in the Queen's 2017 Birthday Honors for his services to philanthropy.

In 2013, Blavatnik made a gift to Harvard University to launch a major initiative to expedite the development of basic science discoveries into breakthrough therapies for patients and cures for disease. The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies and prepares them for licensing and commercial development. The gift also created the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Program at Harvard Business School to provide MBA students with experience in life science entrepreneurship through exposure to the biomedical projects supported by the Accelerator.

Blavatnik studied as an undergraduate in Moscow and received a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

OSMAN F. BOYNER MPA '01

Turkey | Boyner Sanayi A.S.

Osman F. Boyner MPA '01 joined Boyner Sanayi as chief executive officer in 2001. He has focused on private equity opportunities in the construction materials and textile sectors, among others. Additionally, Boyner is the founder and chief executive officer of BD Otomotiv, a company that focuses on the distribution, production, and charging of electric vehicles in Turkey and several other metropolitan areas in Europe.

Boyner previously worked for Bank Julius Baer in New York, where he spent three years mainly in the risk management division. He also worked for Bain, Cuneo e Associati, Istanbul, and the Cambridge Incubator, where he concentrated on starting incubator and venture capital funds. During this time, he cofounded the Turkish Venture Capital Association.

Boyner is a board member of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and a member of the Propeller Club of Turkey, an international forum for English-speaking business executives. In 2005, he was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He has also served as a member of the Consultative Committee for the Turkish Textile Employers' Association.

In addition to an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, Boyner received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a graduate degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Imperial College London.

JAMES W. BREYER MBA '87

United States | Breyer Capital

James W. "Jim" Breyer MBA '87 is the founder and chief executive officer of Breyer Capital, a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Breyer has been an investor in more than 40 internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers. Breyer began his career at Accel, where he was a partner for nearly three decades and served as managing partner. He also cofounded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR.

Breyer currently serves on the boards of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, and he previously served on the boards of Facebook, Etsy, Legendary Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, Wal-Mart, and Dell.

Breyer is passionate about philanthropy and applying venture philanthropy and innovation models to areas such as education, the arts, and environmental sustainability. He is a fellow of Harvard Corporation, a member of Harvard Business School's Board of Dean's Advisors, a founding member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Stanford University's School of Engineering, chair of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, and chair of the advisory board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is a longtime trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is also actively involved in the Environmental Defense Fund and Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

He received a BS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

GERALD L. CHAN SM '75, SD '79

United States | Morningside Group

Gerald L. Chan SM '75, SD '79 is the cofounder of Morningside Group, a diversified investment group engaged in private equity and venture capital investments. Gerald is a member of the Dean's Board of Advisors of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which was renamed in honor of his father Mr. T.H. Chan following a gift from the Morningside Foundation in 2014. He is also a member of the Global Advisory Council of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and a trustee of Fudan University. He chairs the Innovation Advisory Committee of the Wellcome Trust and the Overseers of Morningside College, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In recognition of Gerald's contribution to science and business, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Scripps Research Institute and University of Massachusetts Boston granted him honorary degrees earlier this year.

JEFFREY CHEAH

Malaysia | The Sunway Group

Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah is the founder and chairman of Sunway Group, one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates, with core interests in property, construction, education, and health care operating in 50 locations worldwide. He is also the founding trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF), Malaysia's largest education-focused social enterprise.

Tan Sri Cheah is the founding trustee of the Board of Mahathir Science Award Foundation, the Razak School of Government, and the Perdana Leadership Foundation. He is also a member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Harvard's Committee on University Resources; the Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council; and the chairman and cofounder of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute.

Through JCF, Tan Sri Cheah has made generous benefactions to world-renowned universities, including the establishment of the Jeffrey Cheah Professorship, the Jeffrey Cheah Visiting Professorship, the Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grants, and the Jeffrey Cheah Funds for Southeast Asia Studies at Harvard University. JCF also established the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia to deepen its academic partnership with Harvard and other leading universities by conducting and promoting joint research and teaching on the economies, societies, politics, and cultures of Southeast Asia.

Tan Sri Cheah has been appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) by the prime minister of Australia and Honorary Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) by Malaysia's inspector-general of police. He was also appointed by the minister of education to serve on Malaysia's education panel, which reviews the nation's education system.

Tan Sri Cheah has been conferred 10 honorary doctorates by leading universities worldwide. He has twice been recognized by Forbes Asia as a "Hero of Philanthropy," and he recently received the Channel NewsAsia Lifetime Achievement Luminary Award, the Malaysian Institute of Management's Malaysian Leadership Excellence Award, and the Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture, and Education.

DHANIN CHEARAVANONT

Thailand | Charoen Pokphand Group

Dhanin Chearavanont is senior chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group), a global business corporation with a primary focus in three core areas: agribusiness and food, retail, and telecommunications. Mr. Chearavanont is recognized for his efforts in the promotion of national development, people's well-being, and globalizing business, as encapsulated in his "Three-Benefit Principle"—namely, benefit for country, for people, and for company, which is applicable to wherever the CP Group operates.

The CP Group was the first foreign investor in China, going back to the late 1980s, and Mr. Chearavanont is the inaugural president of the China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. In June of 2017, Mr. Chearavanont was reelected president of the Association for a fourth consecutive term. For his part in promoting agribusiness investment in Russia, Mr. Chearavanont has been awarded the Order of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. He has also been recognized by the past president of Myanmar for his services to the Myanmar government in national economic development.

Mr. Chearavanont takes an active interest in the leveraging of global business innovation and creation resulting from rapid technological transformation, whether in the manufacturing or service sector, and its effects on the people and society. He is instrumental in promoting the CP Group as a corporate learning organization by establishing the CP Leadership Institute (CPLI) in Khaoyai, Thailand. CPLI's mandate is to train CP's next-generation leaders in next-generation business knowledge and agendas.

Forbes has named Mr. Chearavanont as one of the world's leading philanthropists for several years running, and in 2011 Forbes Asia named him "Businessman of the Year". He is also a recipient of the lifetime achievement awards from CNBC Asia-Pacific and Channel NewsAsia. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Massey University of New Zealand for his contributions to the food and agriculture industries.

Mr. Chearavanont is a graduate of the National Defence College of Thailand and the Thai Institute of Directors Association's Director Accreditation Program.

ALIKO DANGOTE

Nigeria | The Dangote Group

Aliko Dangote is the founder and president/chief executive of the Dangote Group. Under his stewardship, the Dangote Group has expanded from the commodities trading company he established into the most recognized brand in Nigeria, with a presence in 17 African countries. One subsidiary, Dangote Cement Plc, is the largest listed company in West Africa and the first Nigerian company to join the Forbes Global 2000 Companies list. Dangote continues to steward the growth of the Dangote Group into other sectors of the economy with the construction of the largest refinery, petrochemical, and fertilizer complex in Africa.

Internationally, Dangote sits on the board of the Corporate Council on Africa, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative, the McKinsey Advisory Council, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He was named co-chair of the US-Africa Business Center, in September 2016, by the United States Chamber of Commerce. In April 2017, he joined the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), which is helping countries build the systems necessary to provide health services to their people.

A dedicated philanthropist, Dangote made an initial endowment of $1.25 billion to the Dangote Foundation in March 2014, enabling it to scale up its work in health, education, and economic empowerment. In addition, he is collaborating with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fight polio. He is also on the Board of ONE, the anti-poverty group co-founded by Bono.

A graduate of Al-Azahar University in Cairo, Egypt, Dangote began his career in 1978, trading in rice, sugar, and cement before he ventured into full-scale manufacturing. In 2013, Forbes listed him as the "Most Powerful Man in Africa." In April 2014, TIME magazine listed him among its 100 "Most Influential People in the World." He also made the list of CNBC's "Top 25 Businessmen in the World" that changed and shaped the century.

HENRI D'ARENBERG

Belgium | be.Source and Arenberg Foundation, both private foundations under Belgian law

Prince Henri d’Arenberg is currently a managing director and board member of several privately held companies.

In the non-profit sector, he is the founder and chairman of be.Source, a private foundation under Belgian law, a non-medical organization which aims at improving the welfare and living conditions of underprivileged elderly people. The foundation supports local initiatives and is acting as a crossroad and meeting point between various stakeholders active in the sector. It works around five areas of solidarity: the issues of loneliness and cognitive decline, intergenerational relationships, management of free time and mobility. The long term vision of be.Source is to facilitate models that empower such senior citizens.

Henri is vice chairman of the Arenberg Foundation, a private foundation under Belgian law, which promotes “dialogue between the different European cultures, with respect for both diversity and subsidiarity.”

He is an advisor for the SOLVE Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a member of MIT’s Visiting Committee for Libraries since 2016.

He is a board member of United Way L’Alliance, France, a non-profit that creates programs and coordinates private, public and individual stakeholders to bring community impact solutions to society issues, notably in the field of education.

Henri is a member of The International Advisory Council of the American European Community Association (AECA). “Firmly established in the heart of the European Union in Brussels as an independent, non-partisan association, AECA provides a neutral, dynamic, high-level forum for senior business leaders and policy-makers to meet and discuss a wide range of global policy issues.”

He was also a member of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Agenda Council on Ageing 2014 – 2016”.

Henri received a higher degree in hotel and tourism management from the International Center of Glion in Switzerland, and completed several programs at the IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland: PED (Program for Executive Development), BHPB (Building High Performance Boards), LFB (Leading the Family Business) and OWP (Orchestrating Winning Performance).

MICHEL RAY DE CARVALHO AB '66, MBA '70

United Kingdom | Chairman at Capital Generation Partners

Michel Ray de Carvalho AB '66, MBA '70 is currently chairman at Capital Generation Partners. He also serves as executive director of the board of Heineken Holding.

Prior to joining Capital Generation Partners, de Carvalho was vice chairman of Citi Investment Banking and global chairman of Citi Private Bank, and held various senior roles at Nikko Securities, where he played a pivotal role in the creation of Nikko Salomon Smith Barney in 1998. He was appointed a member of the board of managing directors and a member of the management committee of Nikko Securities, the first non-Japanese person to join the company's main board. Before joining Nikko, de Carvalho held increasingly senior roles in banking at N M Rothschild & Sons and Credit Suisse First Boston.

De Carvalho has represented Great Britain in the Winter Olympics on three occasions: 1968 in Grenoble, France, for skiing; and 1972 in Sapporo, Japan, and 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria, for luge.

De Carvalho received an AB from Harvard College in 1966, a French Baccalaureate in philosophy from the International School of Geneva, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1970.

He is married to Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, and they have five children.

PAUL DESMARAIS JR.

Canada | Power Corporation of Canada

Paul Desmarais Jr. is chairman and co-chief executive officer of Power Corporation of Canada, executive co-chairman of Power Financial Corporation, and co-chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Pargesa Holdings SA.

He joined Power Corporation of Canada in 1981 and assumed the position of vice president the following year. In 1984, he led the creation of Power Financial to consolidate Power's major financial holdings, as well as Pargesa Holding SA (the Swiss holding company through which Power Financial's European industrial investments are held), under a single corporate entity. During the past three decades, Desmarais has made a significant contribution to expanding Power Financial's holdings and to managing the investment portfolio of Pargesa. Desmarais is a director and member of various board committees of many Power group companies, including Great-West Lifeco Inc., IGM Financial Inc., and their major subsidiaries. He is also vice-chairman of the board of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and a director of LafargeHolcim and SGS S.A. Desmarais is active on a number of philanthropic advisory councils.

He received the Insigne d'Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne of Belgium in 1994. In 2005, he was named an officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2009, an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec. In 2012, he was named chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in France. Desmarais received a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University and an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in France.

PAUL B. EDGERLEY

United States | Bain Capital Private Equity

Paul Edgerley was a managing director at Bain Capital from 1990 until his retirement in January 2016. Since his retirement he serves as a senior advisor to the firm. During his time at Bain Capital, Mr. Edgerley played a senior leadership role in the firm, co-leading the private equity business, overseeing the firm’s expansion into Asia, and serving as the co-head of the firm’s investment committee. He is also a managing director of VantEdge Partners, a private investment gamily office group focused on building partnership that grow excellent companies.

Paul currently serves as a director and chairman of the Board of New York Stock Exchange, Sensata Technologies, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hero MotoCorp, APEX Tool Group, and TI Automotive. He also serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics since 2002 and the Board of AS Roma, the Italian professional football team.

Paul has also served on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Business School, the Executive Committee of the Trust Board of Kansas State University, Children’s Hospital Trust Board, the Board of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, the Board of New Profit, Inc., the US Board of The Right to Play, the Board of Year Up and is co-chair of the Harvard University Capital Campaign and co-chair of the Harvard Campaign for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Paul spent five years at Bain & Company where he worked as a consultant and manager in the healthcare, information services, retail and automobile industries. Previously, he was a certified public accountant working at Peat Marwick, Mitchell & Company. Paul was awarded an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from Kansas State University.

He and his wife, Sandra, reside in Brookline with their four children.

MARY CALLAHAN ERDOES MBA '93

United States | J.P. Morgan

Mary Callahan Erdoes MBA '93 is chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan's Asset Management division, a global leader in investment management and private banking with more than $2.4 trillion in client assets. She is also a member of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Operating Committee.

Mary joined J.P. Morgan in 1996 from Meredith, Martin & Kaye, a fixed income specialty advisory firm. Previously, she worked at Bankers Trust in corporate finance, merchant banking, and high-yield debt underwriting.

Mary is a board member of Robin Hood, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, and the U.S.-China Business Council. She also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. She received a BS in mathematics from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mary lives in New York City with her husband and three daughters.

SABRINA W. FUNG '93

Hong Kong | Fung Retailing Limited

Sabrina W. Fung is the group managing director of Fung Retailing Limited and deputy chairman and non-executive director of Trinity Limited. She is also the investment director of Fung Investment Management Limited, the private investment arm of the Fung Group.

Fung is experienced in the retail industry. She was named in the Business of Fashion 500 and the WWD 10 of Tomorrow in 2017.

Fung graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in economics in 1993. She is a member of the Special Task Group of the Moral Education Concern Group; the Advisory Committee of the Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong-Europe Business Council, the University Court of he University of Hong Kong (HKU); the Hong Kong-France Business Council; the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, New York (Class of 2020), the International Advisory Council of the Faculty of Business and Economics at HKU; and the McLaren Advisory Group. In addition, Fung is the co-chair of the Asia Council of St Paul’s School in New Hampshire, and previously served on the school’s Board of Trustees. She was a member of the Mainland Business Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

VICTOR KWOK-KING FUNG PHD '71

Hong Kong | Fung Group

Victor Kwok-King Fung PhD '71 is the group chairman of the Fung Group, which is comprised of major subsidiaries in trading, logistics, distribution, and retailing. Its holdings include the publicly listed Li & Fung Limited, Global Brands Group Holding Limited, Convenience Retail Asia Limited, and Trinity Limited. He is chairman of the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong, a multi-disciplinary think tank co-established with the Fung Global Institute.

Fung holds a number of civic and professional appointments, including serving as a member of the Hong Kong government's Commission on Strategic Development, adviser of the Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and chairman of the steering committee on the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. From 2004 to 2013, Fung was chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council. From 1991 to 2000, he was chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council; from 1999 to 2008, he was chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong; and from 1996 to 2003, he was the Hong Kong representative on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.

The Hong Kong government awarded Fung the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2003 and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2010 for his distinguished service to the Hong Kong community. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 in recognition for his commitment to public service. In 1995, Fung was voted "Businessman of the Year" at the Hong Kong Business Awards, for his success as an entrepreneur and for his contribution to Hong Kong's economic development. He also was chosen "Hong Kong Leader of the Year" in 1998 and was named by BusinessWeek as one of the 50 Asian leaders leading the region out of economic turmoil.

Fung received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in business economics from Harvard University.

WILLIAM K. L. FUNG MBA '72

Hong Kong | Li & Fung Limited

William "Bill" K. L. Fung MBA '72 is the group chairman of Li & Fung Limited. He is a non-executive director of various companies within the Fung Group of companies, including publicly listed Global Brands Group Holding Limited, Convenience Retail Asia Limited, and Trinity Limited.

Fung is an independent non-executive director of VTech Holdings Limited; Shui On Land Limited; Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited; The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, in Hong Kong; and Singapore Airlines in Singapore. Fung has previously held key positions in major trade and business associations: he is a past chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the Hong Kong Exporters' Association, and the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Fung was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government in 2008. He received a BSE in engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

ROBERT F. GREENHILL MBA '62

United States | Greenhill & Co., Inc.

Robert F. Greenhill MBA '62 is founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co., Inc., an independent investment bank he founded in 1996. In addition, he has served as a director since 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2007.

Greenhill began his career at Morgan Stanley Group, where he became a partner in 1970 and directed its newly formed mergers and acquisitions department in 1972. In 1980, he became a member of the firm's management committee and was named director of the firm's investment banking division with responsibility for domestic and international corporate finance. Greenhill served as Morgan Stanley's vice chairman from 1989 to 1991 and president from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1996, Greenhill was chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney Inc. He also served as a director of Smith Barney's parent company, which is now known as Travelers Corporation.

Greenhill received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

CLAUDIO L. HADDAD OPM '87

Brazil | Insper Institute of Education & Research

Claudio Haddad OPM '87 is the founder and chairman of the board of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business, economics, and engineering school in Brazil. He is also chairman of the board, founder, and main shareholder of Grupo Ibmec SA, a for-profit organization operating Faculdades Ibmec.

Haddad sits on the boards of BM&F Bovespa, Ideal Invest, Albert Einstein Hospital, and Instituto Unibanco. In addition, he is chairman of the advisory council of the Brazil office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a member of the advisory council of the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. From 1993 to 1998, Haddad was chief executive officer of Banco de Investimentos Garantia SA, a Brazilian investment bank (structured as a partnership), which was bought by Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. From 1980 to 1982, he served as director responsible for public debt and open market operations for the Central Bank of Brazil. Haddad was a professor of economics at the Graduate School of Economics of Fundação Getúlio Vargas between 1974 and 1980.

Haddad received a BS in engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, where his doctoral thesis focused on the quantitative economic history of post-war Brazil. He was also part of the OPM program at Harvard Business School.

MARGARET A. HAMBURG AB '77, GSAS '78, MD '83

United States | Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine

Margaret Hamburg AB '77, GSAS '78, MD '83 is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine. She is the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), having served for almost six years. As FDA commissioner she was known for advancing regulatory science, streamlining and modernizing FDA's regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency. Before joining FDA, Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing nuclear, chemical, and biological threats. Previous government positions include assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; health commissioner for New York City; and assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

As foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Hamburg serves as senior advisor on international matters and is the liaison with other academies of medicine around the world. She is president elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Medicine. Hamburg currently sits on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, the Simons Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the American Museum of Natural History. She is chair of the Joint Coordinating Group for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation, and a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Council, the Global Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the Gates Foundation, the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and the World Dementia Council.

Hamburg earned her BA from Harvard College, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed her medical residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is the recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous awards.

GUSTAVE M. HAUSER LLB '53

United States | Hauser Communications

Gustave M. Hauser LLB '53 was the founding chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Cable Communications, serving from 1973 to 1983. He then established and became chairman and chief executive officer of Hauser Communications, Inc., a private company engaged in building and operating major cable television systems, international communications satellites, and other electronic communications. He has been responsible for developing many cable TV programming innovations, including Nickelodeon, MTV Music Television, The Movie Channel, pay-per-view, and various interactive services.

Among his public service activities, Hauser was appointed by the President of the United States to serve as director-at-large of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation from 1970 through 1977. Hauser and his wife, Rita, operate The Hauser Foundation, Inc. and, among their many major philanthropic projects, they have funded Hauser Hall at Harvard Law School, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University (which became the Hauser Institute for Civil Society in 2013), and they established the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching project in 2012. Hauser and his wife serve as honorary chairs of The Harvard Campaign.

Hauser received an AB from Western Reserve University, an LLB from Harvard Law School, an LLM from New York University Law School, and an LLM from the University of Paris, France Law Faculty.

RITA E. HAUSER HLS '58

United States | The Hauser Foundation, Inc.

Rita E. Hauser HLS '58, president of The Hauser Foundation, is an international lawyer and was a senior partner for more than 20 years at the New York City law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Hauser served on the president's Intelligence Advisory Board from December 2009 to December 2012 and from 2001 to 2004.

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, she serves as a member of the Academy's Trust. For two decades (1993–2016), Hauser chaired the International Peace Institute (a think tank for United Nations–related matters) and serves on the advisory board of the International Crisis Group. She chaired the American Ditchley Foundation from 2006 through 2010, and was elected a governor of the British Ditchley Foundation in 2010. She served on the visiting committee at Harvard Kennedy School and was vice chairman of the Dean's Advisory Board at Harvard Law School.

Among their many philanthropic projects, Hauser and her husband, Gustave, have funded Hauser Hall at Harvard Law School and founded the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University in 1997, which became the Hauser Institute for Civil Society in 2013. Early in 2012, they established the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. The Hausers were the principal benefactors of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University Law School. She is a director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and serves on its executive committee. Hauser was national co-chair of the last Harvard University Campaign and currently serves as an honorary chair of The Harvard Campaign.

Hauser was awarded the Albert Gallatin Medal, the highest honor for public service of New York University, in 2006; the Vanderbilt Medal, the highest honor of New York University School of Law, in 2004; as well as the Harvard Medal for distinguished service to Harvard University in 1999. She holds advanced degrees from the University of Strasbourg in France, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Paris Law School.

PATRICK J. HEALY AB '89, MBA '94

United Kingdom | Hellman & Friedman LLC

Patrick Healy AB '89, MBA '94 is the deputy CEO of Hellman & Friedman. He is a member of the Investment Committee and Compensation Committee and leads the firm's London office and European activities. Patrick joined H&F in 1994. He is currently a director of Scout24, Verisure (Securitas Direct), and TeamSystem. His previous investment activities included Axel Springer, Digitas, DoubleClick, Formula One, Gartmore, Gaztransport & Technigaz, Mondrian, Nasdaq, National Information Consortium, Neverfail Bottled Water, Nielsen, PowerBar, ProSieben, Wood Mackenzie, and Young & Rubicam. Prior to H&F, Patrick was employed by James D. Wolfensohn Incorporated in New York and Consolidated Press Holdings in Australia. Patrick started his career stocking paint and sundries at Schoening's Paint and Wallpaper in Rockford, Illinois. He received an AB from Harvard College in 1989 and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1994.

JOHN B. HESS AB '75, MBA '77

United States | Hess Corporation

John B. Hess AB '75, MBA '77 is chief executive officer of Hess Corporation, a leading independent energy exploration and production company. Hess has recently led the Fortune 100 company through a strategic transformation from an integrated oil company into a pure-play E&P company. Hess Corporation's global portfolio is focused in five strategic areas: the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and the Utica Shale in Ohio; the deepwater Gulf of Mexico; Valhall Field in Norway and South Arne Field in Denmark; offshore West Africa, equatorial Guinea, and Ghana; and offshore Malaysia, in the Gulf of Thailand.

Hess currently serves on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Quadrennial Review Task Force. He is a member of the board of directors of KKR & Company and the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of The Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Hess serves on the executive committee of the American Petroleum Institute. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and on the board of trustees at the New York Public Library and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Hess received an AB from Harvard College in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. A member of the Board of Dean's Advisors at Harvard Business School, he is also chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign.

ALAN HOWARD

United Kingdom/Switzerland | Brevan Howard

Alan Howard is the founder and chief information officer of Brevan Howard Asset Management, one of the world's leading macro absolute return managers, with eight offices around the globe. Prior to founding Brevan Howard in 2002, Howard worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, Tokai Bank Europe, and Salomon Brothers.

Among his many philanthropic projects, Howard has made gifts to endow the Alan Howard Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship in Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, as well as the 19th Century European Art Gallery at the Harvard Art Museums. In addition, he established the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School, and he funded Howard Hall at the JW3, a Jewish cultural center in London, where he launched the Alan Howard Foundation/JW3 Speaker Series.

Howard received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, where he was awarded a fellowship in 2011.

FRED HU

Hong Kong | Primavera Capital Group

Fred Hu is founder and chairman of Primavera Capital Group, a global investment firm focused on innovative industries in China and around the world. Its portfolio companies range from autonomous driving, data analytics, and e-commerce to Fintech, new retail, and social media.

Fred is a respected economist whose main areas of research include macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, and international finance. He served at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and he has advised the Chinese government on financial reform, SOE restructuring, and macroeconomic policies. Fred also served on the Hong Kong government's Strategic Development Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

He is currently the non-executive chairman of Yum China Holdings Inc., and he is a member of several corporate boards, among them Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, and UBS Group AG.

In addition, Fred is co-chair of the Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council, a trustee of of the China Medical Board, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Advisory Board, and a member of the advisory committees for the Harvard China Fund, the Stanford Center for International Development, and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University.

Previously, Fred was chairman of Greater China and a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was instrumental in building the firm's franchise in the Asia Pacific region.

Fred holds a master’s in engineering science from Tsinghua University and a master’s and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

ANDRÉ R. JAKURSKI MBA '73

Brazil | JGP

André Roberto Jakurski MBA '73 is a founding partner at JGP—one of the oldest and most highly regarded independent asset management firms in Brazil—where he is responsible for fixed income, equity, currency, and commodity investments in global markets. Jakurski has been an executive director of both JGP Global Gestão de Recursos Ltda. and JGP Gestão de Recursos Ltda. since their incorporation.

Prior to founding JGP, Jakurski was a founding partner of Banco Pactual SA, responsible for the management of equity funds and equity portfolios. Previously, he was an executive director of Unibanco, one of Brazil's largest universal banks, for 10 years. At various times, Jakurski has served as a director of the Brazilian Association of Investment Banks, the Brazilian Association of Leasing Companies, and the Brazilian Futures Exchange.

Jakurski received a BSc in mechanical engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro in 1971. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1973 with high distinction, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

IŞIK KEÇECI AŞUR MBA '97

Turkey | Infinity Invest Holding, A.Ş.

Işık Keçeci Aşur MBA '97 is founder, director, and board member of Infinity Invest, overseeing their diversified portfolio of family businesses with a concentration on oil distribution, oil storage, biodiesel terminals, food production, distribution and retail, and residential and commercial real estate.

A firm believer in entrepreneurship and supporting women's leadership in business, Aşur founded and led several businesses in Turkey, including Starbucks, Caffe Nero, Le Pain Quotidien, The Body Shop, and Debenhams. She previously worked as director of marketing and director of corporate development for Bertelsmann, a leading global media conglomerate; regional director and later managing director of Beiersdorf, a diversified cosmetics, medical, and industrial conglomerate both in Turkey and Germany; and managing director of Fresenius Kabi, a global leader in infusion and nutrition therapy.

Aşur currently serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including Harvard Business School's Board of Dean's Advisors, Koç University, Board of Observers/Incubation Center, and Robert College high school. She is also a founding board member of Endeavor, an international nonprofit development organization that finds and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Aşur is a graduate of Robert College high school and received a bachelor of arts in economics from Bosphorus University with a minor in international relations. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.

CHRIS J. KIRUBI OPM '00

Kenya | Haco Tiger Brands

Chris Kirubi OPM '00 is a prominent investor in Kenya and the East Africa region.

He is chairman of Coca-Cola Nairobi Bottlers, DHL Express Worldwide, Haco Tiger Brands, Smart Applications International, and Capital FM, among others. He is deputy chairman of Bayer East Africa Limited.

Kirubi is a director and majority shareholder in the Centum Investment Group, East Africa's leading investment company. As chairman of the Investment Committee, Kirubi has led the group through change and growth. Centum has diversified into the real estate, agriculture, education, financial, and energy sectors. Centum has in its portfolio companies, such as General Motors East Africa, Sidian Bank, Nabo Capital, Almasi Bottlers, Aon Insurance Brokers, Amu Power, Athena Properties, and the Carlsberg brand. Centum has recently opened the largest shopping mall in East and Central Africa, Two Rivers Mall, www.tworivers.co.ke.

Aside from his personal interests, Kirubi is a passionate ambassador for the Kenya Country Brand and was appointed by H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2016 to serve as chairperson of Brand Kenya Board. He is a founder council member of the AU Foundation, set up to champion African interests in the continent.

He is a recipient of the Elder of the Burning Spear (Kenya, 1999), the Honour of the Grand Medal (Republic of Ghana, December 2015), and the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (French Government 2015). He was named Distinguished African Impact Leader of the Year 2016 by the African Leadership Magazine and Congressional Commendation by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus. Kirubi was awarded the 2015 Africa CEO of the Year by the Africa CEO Forum (Geneva).

Kirubi currently serves as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Mauritius in Kenya.

MICHAEL KLEIN

United States | M. Klein and Company, LLC

Michael Klein's firm, M. Klein and Company, is a global strategic advisor to chief executive officers, boards of directors, governments, and large institutional investors. Launched in 2012, the firm has rapidly developed into one of the leading advisory boutiques, with a global presence through strategic relationships and advisors in London, Beijing, and other international financial centers.

Klein's background in strategic advisory work was built during a 30-year career, including more than two decades at Citi and its predecessors, during which time he initiated and executed hundreds of strategic advisory transactions. He began his career as an investment banker in the M&A Advisory Group at Salomon Smith Barney and subsequently became head of investment banking of all Citi affiliates, including Salomon Smith Barney and Schroders.

After building Citi's investment bank into a successful, respected global franchise, Klein was named CEO of all of Citi's institutional clients' businesses, which had aggregate revenues of approximately $20 billion and 65,000 employees. He led the negotiations and integration of the acquisitions of Schroders PLC, Nikko, and the merger between Citi and Salomon Smith Barney investment banking businesses.

Klein now leads a firm which provides strategic and financial advice to companies and pro bono advice to governments. The firm's recent publicly announced transactions include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 and the $100 billion proposed IPO of Saudi Aramco; Dow Chemical's $130 billion merger of equals with DuPont; and the restructurings of Dubai World and the Bank of Ireland, for which M. Klein advised the governments of Dubai and Ireland, respectively.

For more than a decade, Klein has served as special advisor to the World Food Programme of the United Nations, regarding food security and disaster recovery. He is a member of various boards and advisory boards, including United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, American Academy of Berlin, TBG Limited, Conservation International, Mount Sinai, Akbank, and Wharton.

Klein is married and has two high school–aged children. The family has resided in New York since 2006, after returning from London, where they lived for seven years.

ALI Y. KOÇ MBA '97

Turkey | Koç Holding A.S.

Ali Y. Koç MBA '97 started his career at American Express as a management trainee and continued as an investment analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Bank. Koç joined Koç Holding in 1997 and held senior-level positions until 2010, including new business development and information technologies. He was the president of corporate communications and IT group. He served as a board member at Koç Holding for over eight years. In addition, he was elected as vice chairman in February 2016.

Currently, Koç is the chairman of Ark İnşaat, Bilkom, Digital Panorama, Ford Otosan, Koç Information and Defence Technologies, Koç Sistem, Koçtaş, Otokar, Otokoç, Setur and Yapi Kredi Bank. In addition to being chairman and vice chairman at Turkey’s biggest companies and financial institutions, Koç also contributes to country’s social and economic development atFenerbahçe Sports Club as President, URAK – National Competition Research Association as president, Endeavor Association and DEİK, Foreign Economic Relations Board as a board member. He is also the vice chairman of TÜSİAD – Turkish Industry and Business Association, and member of the Global Advisory Council of Bank of America, Harvard University and Council on Foreign Relations.

Koç received his bachelor’s degree at management faculty of Rice University. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

JAMES C. KRALIK AB '86, MBA '90

China | Linden Street Capital Limited

James Kralik AB '86, MBA '90 is the managing director of Linden Street Capital Limited, an investment holding company with real estate, public market securities, and private equity interests. He also serves as a director of Milestone Capital Investment Holdings Limited, a private equity firm that has been investing in China-based businesses since 2002.

James began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both North America and Asia. In 1993, he founded a Hong Kong–based group of media companies operating throughout Greater China and co-managed these businesses through their sale in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, James was the chief executive officer of VTech Telecommunications Limited (0303.HK), leading the company through a financial turnaround.

While studying at Harvard Business School, James was an economics tutor at Adams House and taught economics at Harvard College. He also taught Harvard's first year economics course, "Principles of Economics," and was awarded the Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He was awarded the Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching the first year he was an instructor of "Principles of Economics." More recently, James has taught an undergraduate management course at Fudan University in Shanghai.

James has served on the Harvard Business School Global Alumni Board, the Harvard Business School Global Leaders Circle, the Harvard University China Advisory Group, and the board of trustees of the University School in Cleveland, Ohio. He is married to Yunli Lou AB '91, the founding partner and managing director of Milestone Capital. They reside in Shanghai, China, and have four children, ages eleven through eighteen.

JANICE LEE AB '94

New York | Author

Janice Lee AB '94 is the author of the novels The Expatriates (Viking/Penguin, 2016) and The Piano Teacher (Penguin, 2009), which was a New York Times bestseller and received praise from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews. It was also featured in various magazines, including Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, and Good Housekeeping; was a People's Pick in People magazine; and was translated into 26 languages.

Lee has worked as an editor at Elle and Mirabella magazines in New York and her writing has appeared in Elle, Mirabella, Glamour, and Travel+Leisure, among other magazines. She is a trustee of St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and also serves on the board of Yaddo, the artist colony.

Lee received an AB cum laude from Harvard College with a concentration in English and American literature and language. She is married to Joseph Y. Bae AB '94, a managing partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company.

KEWSONG LEE AB '86, MBA '90

United States | The Carlyle Group

Kewsong Lee AB '86, MBA '90 is a managing director, deputy chief investment officer of the Corporate Private Equity segment, and head of the Global Market Strategies segment at The Carlyle Group. He helps drive the investment activities and management of both segments and serves on numerous investment and credit committees of these businesses. Lee is a member of the Carlyle Management Committee and also is involved in the firm's corporate development activities. He is based in New York and Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Carlyle in 2013, Lee was a partner at Warburg Pincus and a member of the firm's Executive Management Group. During his 21 years at the firm, he led the Consumer, Industrial and Services group, and was actively involved in the firm's financial services efforts, capital markets group, and the development of the firm's buyout practice.

Lee serves on the board of the Lincoln Center Theater, where he is president. He is a trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall and serves on Harvard's Global Advisory Council and the University Campaign Steering Committee. Lee is also the lead director of Arch Capital Group, and has served on numerous corporate boards including Transdigm, Aramark, and Neiman Marcus. He earned his AB in applied mathematics in economics at Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

MIE KYUNG "MIKY" LEE AM '86, GSAS '90

Korea | CJ Entertainment & Media

Mie Kyung "Miky" Lee AM '86, GSAS '90 is vice chairman of CJ Group. In 1994, Lee, along with her brother—the Chairman of CJ Group—founded the entertainment and media division of CJ after leading the company as one of the founding investors in DreamWorks SKG. Since then, CJ has built many influential companies in the Korean entertainment and media industry: CJ CGV, the first and largest multiplex chain in Korea; CJ Media, the leading cable network; and Mnet Media, Korea's first and only "total music entertainment" company and leader in cable music television, music distribution, and live concerts.

Prior to joining CJ, Lee served as director of Samsung America, spearheading Samsung's cultural and educational projects. She established the Parsons School of Design in Seoul for Samsung and oversaw the formation of a branch of Pasadena's ArtsCenter College of Design for Samsung employees.

At the Women's World Awards in 2006, she was awarded the World Business Award for leading the largest entertainment group in Korea and for her global vision. Lee was also chosen by Variety in its Women's Impact Report 2006 as one of the leading executives in the film industry. In 2007, she was the recipient of the CEO of the Year Award by the Korean Management Association in recognition of her role in making possible the thriving film industry in Korea.

Lee received a BA at Seoul National University and studied Chinese language and linguistics at Taiwan National University from 1981 to 1983. In 1984, she studied Japanese language at Keio University. She received an AM in Asian studies from Harvard University in 1986. At Harvard, she served for three years as a teaching fellow in Korean language. She also studied Chinese literature and history at Fudan University in China.

MOU-SHIUNG LIN SM '78, PHD '82

Taiwan | iCometrue Company Ltd.

Mou-Shiung "M. S." Lin SM '78, PhD '82 is the founder and chief executive officer of iCometrue Company Ltd. Previously, he served as vice president in the strategic IP division of Qualcomm; founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the semiconductor company Megic Corporation from 1999 to 2006, and Megica Corporation from 2006 to 2009; president of WYSE Technology Taiwan Ltd.; and R&D director of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Prior to joining TSMC, Lin worked in the United States at AT&T Bell Laboratories and IBM.

Lin served as an adjunct professor at National Tsing Hua University, co-organized an interdisciplinary core course program of semiconductor industry, and taught classes at National Chiao Tung University and National Taiwan University. He is an inventor or co-inventor of 297 issued U.S. patents in the semiconductor field, and has published more than 80 technical papers in international technical journals.

Lin received a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University in 1982 and was a visiting scientist at MIT while a doctoral candidate. He received an SM from Harvard in 1978 and a BS in physics from National Taiwan University.

YUNLI LOU AB '91

China | Milestone Capital

Yunli Lou AB '91 is the founding partner and managing director of Milestone Capital Partners Limited. Founded in 2002, Milestone Capital is a leading China-focused private equity firm, investing in and supporting entrepreneurs in China's high-growth industries. Milestone Capital currently manages three U.S. dollar funds, one RMB fund, and a permanent investment vehicle through the firm's offices in Beijing and Shanghai. Milestone Capital invested and backed some of the leading Chinese companies in the e-commerce, media, food and beverage, sportswear, and healthcare sectors.

Prior to founding Milestone Capital, Yunli worked at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs in New York and Hong Kong.

Yunli received an AB in economics from Harvard College, where she was the recipient of the John Harvard Scholarship. She is married to James C. Kralik AB '86, MBA '90, the managing director of Linden Street Capital Limited. They reside in Shanghai, China, and have four children, ages eleven through eighteen.

ANDRÓNICO LUKSIC

Chile | Luksic Group

Andrónico Luksic is chairman of Quiñenco, a holding of the Luksic Group, one of Chile's largest conglomerates. He is also vice chairman of the board of Banco de Chile; chairman of LQ Inversiones Financieras and of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas; vice chairman of Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores; and a member of the boards of Antofagasta Minerals plc, Invexans S.A., Tech Pack S.A., and Nexans S.A.

Luksic is member of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council of Shanghai and a member of the international advisory committees of Barrick Gold, the Brookings Institution, the Panama Canal Authority, and the Council of the Americas.

He is a member of advisory committees for The Chilean Federation of Industry, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Fudan University School of Management, and the Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government. He also serves on the Dean's Council of Harvard Kennedy School, the board of trustees of Babson College, and the Americas Executive Committee of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Luksic was educated at The Grange School in Santiago, Chile, prior to attending Dublin Preparatory School in New Hampshire and Babson College in Massachusetts.

MICHAEL M. LYNTON AB '82, MBA '87

United States | Snap, Inc.

Michael Lynton AB '82, MBA '87 served as CEO of Sony Entertainment from April 2012 to February 2017, overseeing Sony's global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. From January 2004, Michael also served as chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Prior to joining Sony Pictures, he worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, president of AOL International, and president of Time Warner International. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group, where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet.

Michael currently serves on the board of Snap, Inc.; IEX; and Ares Management, L.P. He is also a member on the Council on Foreign Relations and the Harvard Board of Overseers, and serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tate, and the Rand Corporation. Michael received an AB in history and literature from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

SCOTT D. MALKIN AB '80, MBA '83, JD '84

United Kingdom | Value Retail PLC and S.D. Malkin Properties

Scott D. Malkin AB '80, MBA '83, JD '84 is the founder and chairman of S.D. Malkin Properties, a specialist real estate development company focusing on retail led experiential projects in the United States and Europe. He is also the founder and chairman of Value Retail PLC, co-founder and chairman of Value Retail China, and co-owner of the New York Islanders.

Malkin is a member of the Harvard Medical School Advisory Council on Global Health; the President's Council of Massachusetts General Hospital; and the advisory boards of the Tobin Project, Tompkins Conservation, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library, and Partners In Health.

Malkin serves on various committees at Harvard University, including those that support Harvard Magazine, Harvard Business School (where he is a member of the Dean's Board of Advisors) and the University's fundraising efforts.

JOSÉ ROBERTO MARINHO

Brazil | Grupo Globo

José Roberto Marinho studied history at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro and geography at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University. He began his career in 1972 as a reporter for O Globo newspaper, and in 1981 he became an assistant editor. In May 1983, he was appointed deputy editorial chief, a role he held for a year, when he left the newspaper to become FM programming director of Sistema Globo de Rádio.

In 1992, he founded Acqua Institute, a non-governmental organization focusing on the preservation of water resources. José Roberto is a board member of Grupo Globo and chairs Grupo Globo's social responsibility committee. He serves as a member of the governance committee of Juntos pelo Desenvolvimento Sustentável–Comunitas (Together for Sustainable Development), the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility, the board of curators of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra Foundation, the board of Rare, and the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development. José Roberto is president of the Roberto Marinho Foundation.

In 2006, he took part in the founding of the All for Education movement, of which he is a member of the governance board. José Roberto is also a member of The Nature Conservancy's Latin America Conservation Council, Mexico; the Lincoln Center Latin America Advisory Board; and the Reina Sofia School of Music International Circle, Madrid.

JESSICA TUCHMAN MATHEWS AB '67

United States | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Jessica Tuchman Mathews AB '67 is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie's president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

Mathews has served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Washington program and as a senior fellow; founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural resource management issues; a columnist and editorial board member of the Washington Post; director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council; and deputy to the undersecretary of state for global affairs.

Mathews is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board of Harvard University. She has served as a trustee of leading national and international nonprofits, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Radcliffe College, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Century Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Brookings Institution. She cofounded the Surface Transportation Policy Project, has served on study groups at the National Academy of Sciences, and is an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society. She currently serves on the External Advisory Board of the Central Intelligence Agency and on the International Security Advisory Board of the Department of State. Since 2001, she has served as a director of SomaLogic, a leading biotech firm in the breakthrough field of proteomics. She is also a director of Hanesbrands Inc.

Mathews has published widely in newspapers and in scientific and foreign policy journals, and has co-authored and co-edited three books. She received an AB magna cum laude from Radcliffe College and holds a PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology.

SEAN MCLAUGHLIN AB '91

United States | Craig Taylor Equipment

Sean P. McLaughlin AB '91 is a private investor in the Alaskan construction, aviation, fishing, and tourism industries. He founded the Eze Castle family of companies, which provide technology solutions to investment professionals, particularly hedge funds, and spent ten years as chairman and chief executive officer of Eze Castle Software. He continues to support these companies as an advisor and board member.

McLaughlin received the Deloitte Touche New England Fast 50 company award and Deloitte Touche Fast 500 Company in 2000 and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award in 2001. His companies ranked #81 and #142 in the Inc. magazine 500 fastest growing private companies of 2002 and 2003, respectively; he won the Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year in 2004; and was named one of Boston Business Journal's "40 under 40" in 2004. In 2005, McLaughlin was selected for the prestigious White House Fellows program and spent the next year working for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Following his fellowship, McLaughlin continued a career in public service as chief of operations support for the American Red Cross. In this role, he guided essential support groups through a restructuring effort focused on reducing the organization's operating deficit.

McLaughlin serves as an advisor and board member to various Alaska-based organizations whose missions align with his interests in wildlife conservation and helping the most vulnerable members of the community.

McLaughlin received an AB from Harvard College in 1991 with a concentration in computer science, and has been profiled in various publications, including Harvard Magazine and Success magazine. He resides in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Laura, and their ten children. His oldest daughter, Maria, is a student at Harvard College.

SCOTT MEAD AB '77

United Kingdom | Richmond Park Partners LLP

Scott Mead AB '77 is a photographer, philanthropist, and investor.

Scott was a partner of Goldman Sachs and began his investment banking career in New York, relocating to London in 1987. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2003 and later was a founding partner of Richmond Park Partners LLP in London and senior advisor at Apax Partners.

In the mid-1970s, while at Harvard, Mead studied photography under renowned photographers William Eggleston and Emmet Gowin and had various exhibitions. Following his time at Goldman Sachs, he returned to photography and in 2010, he had a solo exhibition, Looking Back, at Hamiltons Gallery in London, producing a book of the same name. Mead's work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition every year since 2011, and he was profiled in the BBC's The Culture Show in connection with one of his entries. All proceeds from the sale of his work are donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital where one of his children was cured of a life-threatening illness as a baby. Mead's most recent book, Above the Clouds, will be published by Prestel in September 2017. He plans to publish Equivalents and Silent Moments next year and is also working on solo exhibitions of Above the Clouds in late 2017, scheduled for London, New York, and Berlin.

Through the Mead Family Foundation, of which he is founder and chairman, Mead is involved with a number of institutions focused on education, health care, and the arts. He is a former elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association and has served on many Harvard visiting committees and task forces. He is a Charter Trustee of Phillips Academy Andover and has held various roles with Cambridge University. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tate Foundation, a governor of the University of the Arts London (the largest arts university in Europe) and a board member of the International Center of Photography in New York. Mead sits on the Global Advisory Council of the WTA Tour (the governing body of women's tennis), where he was centrally involved in achieving equal prize money for women and previously served in a similar capacity for the men's tennis tour. Among other appointments, he served for five years on the board of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and was chair of The Photographers' Gallery in London, the largest publicly funded photography gallery in Europe.

He received an AB cum laude from Harvard College, an MPhil from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (where he was the Harvard Scholar), and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

NIKHIL MESWANI

India | Reliance Industries

Shri Nikhil R. Meswani is a chemical engineer and son of Shri Rasiklal Meswani, one of the founder directors of Reliance Industries.

He joined Reliance in 1986 and since 1988 has been a full-time director and executive director of the board of the company.

He is primarily responsible for Petrochemicals Division and has contributed largely to Reliance to become a global leader in petrochemicals. Earlier, he handled refinery business between 1997 and 2005. He was also responsible for integration of Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) with Reliance businesses. In addition, he continues to oversee several other corporate responsibilities such as Corporate Affairs and Group's taxation. He also shares responsibilities for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise the Mumbai Indians, the Indian Super League (ISL), and other sports initiatives of the group.

He was the president of Association of Synthetic Fibre Industry and was also the youngest chairman of the Asian Chemical Fibre Industries Federation. He is a member of the Board of Trade (BoT), Ministry of Commerce, government of India. He is also a member of the managing committee of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO).

He was honored by the Institute of Economic Studies, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Textile Association (India), and Ministry of Textiles. He was also honored by FICCI (the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry) for his distinguished contribution to the petrochemicals industry.

He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005 and continues to actively participate in the activities of the Forum. He is also a member of New Senior Advisory Board for South-Asia at the World Economic Forum.

He was ranked in Top 40 Global Power Players in the chemical industry by ICIS, the leading chemical industry magazine for past 3 years consecutively.

He is a member of Global Advisory Council of Harvard University. He is also a member of the board of governors at the University Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT), Mumbai, where he is a distinguished alumnus. He is a member of the corporate social responsibility and governance committee, the finance committee, and the stakeholders' relationship committee of the company; and he is also a director of Reliance Commercial Dealers Limited, chairman of its audit committee, and a member of its nomination and remuneration committee.

HIROSHI MIKITANI MBA '93

Japan | Rakuten

Hiroshi "Mickey" Mikitani MBA '93 is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Rakuten, Inc. Founded in Japan in 1997 with the mission of empowering the world through innovation, Rakuten has grown to become one of the world's leading internet services companies, ranking in the top 20 in Forbes' annual list of The World's Most Innovative Companies every year since 2012.

Rakuten has a dynamic global ecosystem of more than 70 services, including ecommerce, finance, credit card, advertising, messaging, digital content, travel, and professional sports, and brands including Viber, Kobo, Rakuten Marketing, and Ebates.

In 2017, Rakuten will become the Main Global Partner and first-ever Global Innovation and Entertainment Partner of one of the world's most admired soccer clubs, FC Barcelona.

Rakuten shares were listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2013 and in 2016 it was selected for listing on the Nikkei 225 Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index.

Born in Kobe, Mikitani was educated at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, began his career in investment banking, and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School. In 2012, he was awarded the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, one of the School's highest honors.

Mikitani is also a recipient of the Legion of Honour, awarded by the French government in recognition of contributions to the economy and culture of France. In 2011, he was appointed chairman of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, which has the longest history and tradition of any orchestra in Japan, and serves as representative director of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE).

KAREN GORDON MILLS AB ’75, MBA ’77

United States | MMP Group

Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA; 2009–2013) and was a member of the President’s National Economic Council. At SBA, she led a team of more than 3,000 employees and managed a loan guarantee portfolio of over $100 billion. At the height of the Great Recession, she took steps that led to record-breaking years for SBA lending and investments in growth capital. Additionally, Mills’s efforts helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early-stage capital, boost exports, and tap into government and commercial supply chains.

Mills is a senior fellow at both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School, and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She is the author of the upcoming book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream. Links to her Harvard Business School white papers and other publications, including "Growth and Shared Prosperity" can be found here.

Mills is a venture capitalist, the vice chair of Envoy, an immigration services provider, and a director of Churchill Capital Corp. She also serves in leadership roles for several policy organizations, including: chair, Advisory Committee for the Private Capital Research Institute; co-chair, Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Main Street Finance; and member, Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the Harvard Corporation and a past vice chair of the Harvard Overseers.

Mills earned an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She is a recipient of the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award, and is a frequent guest on news outlets, including Bloomberg radio and TV, with recent op-ed placements in Fortune, Forbes, the Hill, Harvard Business Review, and American Banker.

SUNSHIK MIN DBA '89

Korea | Korea International School and YBM

Sunshik Min DBA '89 is CEO of YBM, one of Korea's largest publishing and education companies. Established by his father in 1961, YBM and its subsidiaries publish books and magazines, including the Korean edition of National Geographic magazine, and they operate language schools and administer language and professional certification and licensing tests. Min also serves as the chairman of the board for the Korea International School, which offers K-12 American curricula accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in the United States.

Min serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the International Communication Foundation, Friends of The Asia Foundation, and the MIT Sloan Asian Executive Board. He also serves as co-chair of the education committee of the American Chamber of Commerce Korea. Having previously lectured at universities in Korea, Singapore, and Japan, Min is currently an adjunct professor at Ewha Womans University and Korea University. He received the Medal of Industrial Merit from the Korean government in 2006 and was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire by the United Kingdom in 2007.

In addition to a doctorate in business administration from Harvard Business School, Min received a bachelor's degree in economics from Seoul National University in 1982 and a master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

LAKSHMI MITTAL

India | ArcelorMittal

Lakshmi Mittal is chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel and mining company with operations in more than 60 countries. He founded Mittal Steel (formerly LNM Group) in 1976, and guided its strategic development, culminating in the merger with Arcelor in 2006 that created ArcelorMittal. In 2016, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $56.8 billion.

Mittal is a member of various boards and trusts, including chairman of the board of Aperam and a member of the board of Goldman Sachs. He is a member of the Foreign Investors' Council in Kazakhstan; the global CEO council of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC); the European Round Table of Industrialists; the World Economic Forum's International Business Council; the World Steel Association's executive committee; the governing board of ISB (Indian School of Business); the chairman of the governing council of LNMIIT (LNM Institute of Information Technology); and a member of the board of trustees of Cleveland Clinic.

Mittal's business achievements have been recognized by numerous institutions and renowned bodies. He was named "Business Person of 2006" by the Sunday Times, "International Newsmaker of the Year 2006" by Time magazine and "Person of the Year 2006" by the Financial Times. He has received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, and a Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also been awarded with a fellowship from King's College London and a doctor honoris causa by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.

Mittal, together with his wife, Usha Mittal, are active philanthropists. Much of their philanthropic activity is undertaken in the fields of education and healthcare. In India, they set up the LNM Institute of Information Technology in collaboration with the government of Rajasthan. In the United Kingdom, they have supported the construction of a new building, the Mittal Children's Medical Centre, at London's renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital. They have also been involved in the field of sports, having set up the Mittal Champions Trust to identify and train promising sporting talent in India. ArcelorMittal was also a supporter of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Bharti Airtel, the group’s flagship company, is amongst the world’s largest telecommunications companies, offering mobile, fixed broadband and digital TV solutions to over 456 million customers across India, South Asia and Africa.

Sunil has been the pioneer of the mobile revolution in India. At a time when mobile telecom was considered inaccessible for the masses, Bharti Airtel revolutionized the business model to offer affordable voice and data services. Starting from operations in one Indian city in 1994, to presence across 16 countries today, Bharti Airtel has transformed the quality of lives of millions of people globally, providing connectivity and digital empowerment. The company continues to focus on driving data as the ensuing growth frontier, and is leading the rollout of next generation data networks across India and Africa.

Sunil is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors, awarded to individuals for demonstrating distinguished services of high order. He has also been awarded Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Honor—the utmost honor accorded by the institute to its alumni. He is the recipient of GSMA’s prestigious Chairman award, besides being decorated with numerous industry honors. Sunil has been conferred Honorary Doctorates by several leading universities in India and UK.

Sunil serves on many international bodies and think-tanks—after serving as Chairman for 2 years, he is now the Honorary Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Chairman of GSM Association (GSMA), Member: International Business Council-WEF, Telecom Board of International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Commissioner of the Broadband Commission. He is a Member—Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a Trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and on the Board of Qatar Foundation Endowment. He was the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the premier industry body in India in 2007-08.

Sunil is closely associated with spearheading the Indian industry’s global trade, collaboration and policy - he has served on the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Trade & Industry. He is also a member of the India-US, India-UK and India-Japan, India-Sweden CEO Forums. He is Co-Chair of the India-Africa Business Council and India-Sri Lanka CEO Forum.

Deeply associated with the cause of education, Sunil is on Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council, Board of Dean’s Advisors at HBS and Governing Board of the Indian School of Business.

Sunil believes that a responsible corporate has a duty to give back to the community in which it operates. This belief has resulted in Bharti Foundation, which operates 254 Satya Bharti Schools as well as supports over 600 Government schools under Quality Support Program to ensure holistic education for over 2,50,000 under-privileged children in rural India. Sunil was ranked among the Top 25 Philanthropists in the World in 2009 by the Barron’s Magazine. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of Qatar’s Education Above All Foundation.

BIJAN MOSSAVAR-RAHMANI MPA '82, GSAS '88

United States | DNO and RAK Petroleum plc

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani MPA '82, GSAS '88 is executive chairman of the board of directors of DNO ASA, a publicly listed Norwegian oil and gas company whose primary business is exploration and production in the Middle East and North Africa regions. He is also chairman of the board and chief executive officer of RAK Petroleum plc, an energy investment company.

Mossavar-Rahmani serves concurrently as chairman of the board of directors of Foxtrot International LDC, a privately held Franco-American oil and gas company active in West Africa. He was founder and first chief executive of Apache International, Inc.

In addition to his industry positions, Mossavar-Rahmani is a trustee of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, a member of the visiting committee at Harvard Kennedy School, and a director of the Persepolis Foundation. He has published more than 10 books and dozens of articles on global energy markets, and was decorated a Commandeur de l'Ordre National de la Côte d'Ivoire for services to the energy sector of that country.

He is married to Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, a managing director at Goldman Sachs and chief investment officer for the Private Wealth Management group of Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division.

SHARMIN MOSSAVAR-RAHMANI

United States | Goldman Sachs

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani is chief investment officer of Private Wealth Management (PWM) at Goldman Sachs. She is responsible for overall strategic asset allocation and tactical investment strategy within PWM. Sharmin joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1993.

Prior to joining the firm, Sharmin worked at Fidelity Management Trust Company, where she was chief investment officer for all separate and co-mingled fixed income accounts.

Sharmin is a member of the board of trustees and the investment committee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Harvard University's Committee on University Resources. She is a former member of the board of trustees and a former chair of the investment committee of the Trinity School in New York City. Sharmin has published two books, one on bond indexing and one on OPEC natural gas, as well as numerous articles on portfolio management issues.

Mossavar-Rahmani received a BA from Princeton University and an MS from Stanford University.

PATRICE MOTSEPE

South Africa | African Rainbow Minerals

Patrice Motsepe is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals. Previously, Motsepe was a partner in one of the largest law firms in South Africa. He was also a visiting attorney with the law firm McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1994, Motsepe founded Future Mining, which grew rapidly to become a successful contract mining company. He then formed ARMgold in 1997, which listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 2002. ARMgold merged with Harmony in 2003, and the merger led to the takeover of Anglovaal Mining and the formation of African Rainbow Minerals.

Motsepe was the chairman of the BRICS Business Council in 2013. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, which is made up of 100 highly respected and influential chief executives from all industries. He is also a member of the JP Morgan International Council. From 2003 to 2008, Motsepe was the founding president of Business Unity South Africa, the official representative organization of business in South Africa.

He is currently the non-executive chairman of Harmony, the deputy chairman of Sanlam, and the president of Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club.

HARUO NAITO

Japan | Eisai Co., Ltd.

Haruo Naito joined Eisai Co., Ltd., in 1975 and has been president and chief executive officer since April 1988. He was president of the International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations from November 2009 to November 2010. He was chair of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Associations of Japan (FPMAJ) from May 2012 to May 2014, and vice president of the Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association since May 1998.

In April 1999, he was awarded an honorary CBE from the United Kingdom. In July 2013, he was conferred an honorary doctorate of science from University College London. In April 2014, he was awarded an honorary KBE from the United Kingdom.

Naito received an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

IDAN OFER

United Kingdom | Quantum Pacific

Idan Ofer is a proven international business leader and entrepreneur with a track record of results spanning more than 30 years. He has achieved success globally in a diverse set of industries, including energy, natural resources, oilfield services, medical technology, automotive, and shipping. Idan Ofer brings innovative solutions to traditional industries and is leading expansion into new ventures in many of the most important sectors of the new global economy.

Idan is also a well-known philanthropist who cares deeply about education, the environment, and the Middle East peace process. Donations include £25 million to the London Business School to establish the Sammy Ofer Centre, a cutting edge teaching and learning facility. He has also given generously to the Harvard Kennedy School, enabling the establishment of the Sammy Ofer Graduate Fellowship Fund for Emerging Leaders from Israel and Palestine and the Idan Ofer Gateway Building, a newly constructed space on the HKS campus.

Idan is also a founding member of the Global Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a non-partisan policy forum on global issues established in Washington, D.C., by Congress in memory of the former U.S. president.

ADEBAYO O. OGUNLESI MBA '78, JD '79

United States | Global Infrastructure Partners

Bayo Ogunlesi MBA '78, JD '79 is chairman, managing partner, and a founding partner of GIP, a leading private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets. He is based in New York City.

Prior to the formation of GIP in 2006, Mr. Ogunlesi spent 23 years at Credit Suisse, where he held several senior positions, including executive vice chairman and chief client officer of the Investment Banking Division. From 2002 to 2004, he was head of the Global Investment Banking Division and a member of the Executive Board and Management Committee.

Previously, Mr. Ogunlesi was an attorney with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Ogunlesi holds a BA (first class honors) in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, a JD (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the lead director of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and a member of the board of directors of Callaway Golf Company, Kosmos Energy Holdings, Terminal Investment Limited SA and Freeport LNG Development, L.P. He is a member of President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Boards of the Harvard Law and Business Schools and the Harvard University Global Advisory Council.

NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA AB '77

Nigeria | Lazard Ltd.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala AB '77 is chair of the board of Gavi, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation. Since its creation in 2000, Gavi has immunized 580 million children globally and saved eight million lives. She is also senior adviser at Lazard, one of the world's premier financial advisory and asset management firms.

Previously, Okonjo-Iweala served twice as Nigeria's Finance Minister, from 2003 to 2006 and 2011 to 2015, and briefly served as Foreign Minister, the first woman to hold both positions. She spent 25 years at the World Bank as a development economist, rising to the number two position of managing director, overseeing an $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Central Asia.

Okonjo-Iweala was ranked by Fortune as one of the 50 Greatest World Leaders in 2015, by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World consecutively for four years, by TIME as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2014, and by the UK Guardian as one of the Top 100 Women in the World in 2011.

Okonjo-Iweala holds an AB in economics from Harvard College and a PhD in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received honorary degrees from over a dozen universities, including Yale, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of numerous articles on finance and development, and several books including Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria, published by the MIT Press.

LUBNA OLAYAN

Saudi Arabia | Olayan Financing Co.

Lubna S. Olayan is the CEO and deputy chairman of Olayan Financing Company (OFC), the holding company through which The Olayan Group's trading, real estate, investment, consumer, and industrial-related operations are conducted in the Gulf region.

In 2004, Ms. Olayan became the first woman to join the board of a Saudi publicly listed company when she was elected to the board of Alawwal Bank, and she currently serves as the board's vice chairman. She has been a member of the board of Schlumberger since 2011, and in 2016 she joined the board of Ma'aden, a Saudi public company operating in the mining sector, and she served on the board of WPP plc from 2005–2012.

Ms. Olayan also sits on several international advisory boards, including those of Rolls Royce, Akbank, Allianz SE, McKinsey & Company, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She is currently a trustee of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), as well as the Asia Business Council.

Ms. Olayan chairs Alfanar, a UK-based charity that is one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the Arab world. She is also a board member of the Down's Syndrome Charitable Association in Saudi Arabia.

Ms. Olayan was selected by TIME as being among the 100 most influential people in the world and has been on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women for many years running; she was also selected by Forbes as an influential business leader. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from Trinity College, Dublin and the insignia of Member First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star by His Majesty the King of Sweden, Carl Gustav XVI.

Ms. Olayan holds a BSc from Cornell University and an MBA from Indiana University.

MURAT ÖZYEĞIN MBA '03

Turkey | FIBA Group

Murat Özyeğin MBA '03 is the head of strategic planning and business development of Fiba Group, executive board member of FINA and FIBA Holding, and chairman of all of Fiba Group's non-banking businesses.

Mr. Özyeğin began his career in 1998 at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York City as a financial analyst within the mergers & acquisition group. In 2000, he was appointed to a senior analyst position at the London office of the same company. After his return to Turkey in 2003, he established the strategy and business development departments of Finansbank and FIBA Holding.

He is the chairman of DEİK/Turkey-Netherlands Business Council; an executive board member of the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation, the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), and Endeavor Turkey; a member of the board of trustees of Ozyegin University and the World Wildlife Fund; and a member of the Global Relations Forum and member of Global Advisory Council at Harvard University. Mr. Özyeğin is also the honorary consul-general of the Republic of Singapore.

Mr. Özyeğin holds a BS in industrial management and economics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has three children.

CARLOS RODRIGUEZ-PASTOR

Peru | Intercorp

Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor is chairman of Intercorp and general partner of Nexus Group. Intercorp and Nexus Group invest primarily in Peru and the Andean region and manage portfolio companies in financial services, retail, real estate, education, leisure and entertainment, and packaging.

Carlos is co-founder and chairman of Innova Schools; founder of Peru Champs; a member of the Global Advisory Board of Khan Academy; a member of the executive board of Royalty Pharma; co-chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas; a member of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees; and a member of the Latin America Conservation Council (in partnership with The Nature Conservancy).

Carlos graduated with a BA in social sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1988.

SWATI A. PIRAMAL MPH '92

India | Piramal Enterprises Limited

Swati A. Piramal MPH '92 is one of India's leading scientists and industrialists, and is involved in public health and innovation. She earned her medical degree from Mumbai University and completed her masters in public health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She has used her background in medicine, public health, and business to change the trajectory of healthcare, education, and public policy in India. Piramal is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a dean's advisor to Harvard Business School and the Harvard Chan School.

In addition to her other commitments, Piramal is deeply committed to corporate social responsibilities activities. She is involved in projects across healthcare, education, livelihood creation, and youth empowerment. By finding innovative solutions, she aims to resolve issues that are critical roadblocks towards unlocking India's economic potential. She also looks at avenues for promoting health in rural India with mobile health services, women's empowerment projects, and supporting community education that creates young leaders.

As the first woman president of India's Apex Chamber of Commerce in 90 years, she helped influence important public policies and governance. She served as an adviser to the Indian Prime Minister in science, technology, and economic policy (2006–2014). She has been nominated to Business Today's list of the 25 Most Powerful Women in India eight times and is now a part of the Hall of Fame of Most Powerful Women. In April 2012, she received the Padma Shri Award from the president of India.

Piramal is a leader who makes a positive difference to the community and the world. Her contributions in innovations, new medicines, and public health services have touched thousands of lives.

Porté worked previously at Shinsei Bank, Ltd., Tokyo, where he served as vice chairman from 2003 to 2005 and president and CEO from 2005 to 2008. From 1982 to 2003, he served in various capacities at Morgan Stanley in New York, London, and Tokyo, including as president and branch manager of Morgan Stanley Japan from 1995 to 2003.

Porté received an AB magna cum laude in economics from Harvard College and an MBA with high honors from Harvard Business School. He has held leadership roles in a number of Harvard-related activities, including serving as president of the Harvard Club of Japan from 1995 to 2008 and, currently, as a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors of Harvard Business School.

He is chairman of the US-Japan Bridging Foundation. From 2008 to 2013, he served as chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, appointments designated by the president of the United States.

Prior to founding Roc Capital, Raghunathan was a managing director and head of global arbitrage at Deutsche Bank, and a member of the firm's Global Markets Leadership Forum. He re-joined Deutsche Bank in 1999, having served a previous term there between 1995 and 1997, and that year co-founded a venture capital unit within the bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he headed a proprietary trading group at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Raghunathan received a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, in 1984 and his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. Upon graduating from Berkeley, he was a faculty member of the computer science departments at New York University and at the University of California, Davis. While he was a professor, Raghunathan was a consultant for a number of corporations, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox. He is an author of numerous research papers in the fields of computer science and mathematics.

Raghunathan and his wife, Sribala Subramanian, chair the advisory council of the South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He also currently serves on the board of the American India Foundation. Among other philanthropic affiliations, Raghunathan has created an endowed chair at Columbia University and established undergraduate scholarships at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a trustee of the Dalton School, as well as a member of the advisory committee for the Asia Society, and is a supporter of Sankara Nethralaya, a renowned eye hospital in India.

ALEJANDRO RAMÍREZ MAGANA AB '94, MBA '01

Mexico | Cinépolis

Alejandro Ramírez Magana AB '94, MBA '01 is chief executive officer of Cinepolis, the largest film exhibition company in Latin America, with presence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Central America, India, Spain, and the United States. He served as Mexico's deputy permanent representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as technical secretary of the Social Cabinet of the Government of Mexico. He has worked for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme in the areas of poverty and human development. He co-authored "Poverty, Human Development and Indigenous People in Latin America". He is chairman of the Mexican Business Council and of the Morelia International Film Festival; president of the Mexican Chamber of the Film Industry; and vice-chair of Mexicanos Primero, an initiative to raise the quality of public education in Mexico. He serves on the boards of BBVA Bancomer, Grupo Chedraui, Arcos Dorados, the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and Harvard's Global Advisory Council. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005 and co-chaired their annual meeting in 2012.

He received an AB in economics from Harvard College, an MSc in development economics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN

United States | The Carlyle Group

David M. Rubenstein is a co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $210 billion from 31 offices around the world.

Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of The Law Review.

From 1973 to 1975, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1975 to 1976, he served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1977 to 1981, during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was deputy assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman).

Mr. Rubenstein is chairman of the boards of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations; a fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and President of the Economic Club of Washington.

Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Business Council, Harvard Global Advisory Council (chairman), Madison Council of the Library of Congress (chairman), Board of Dean's Advisors of the Business School at Harvard, Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (former chairman), and Board of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community.

Mr. Rubenstein has served as chairman of the board of trustees of Duke University and co-chairman of the board of the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Rubenstein has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke University and Co-Chairman of the Board of the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.

Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS.

ROBERT E. RUBIN AB '60

United States | Council on Foreign Relations and Centerview Partners

Robert E. "Bob" Rubin AB '60 serves as counselor for Centerview Partners, a global investment banking advisory firm with offices in New York, London, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In his role at Centerview, Rubin acts as a sounding board and advisor to clients across the firm's various activities.

Rubin is a former Secretary of the Treasury. He joined the Clinton administration in 1993, serving as assistant to the president for economic policy and the first director of the National Economic Council. He was named treasury secretary in 1995 and served until 1999. Rubin joined Goldman Sachs & Company in 1966 and served as co-chairman from 1990 to 1992. From 1999 to 2009, he served on the board at Citigroup and as a senior advisor.

In June 2017, Rubin concluded his 10-year term as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations but serves as co-chairman emeritus. He is chairman of the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's leading community development support organization. He also serves on the board of Mount Sinai Health System. In June 2014, he completed a 12-year term as a member of the Harvard Corporation, and is now a member of its Finance Committee. He is one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution, and is author of the New York Times best seller In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington.

Rubin received an AB summa cum laude in economics from Harvard College in 1960 and an LLB from Yale Law School in 1964. He also attended the London School of Economics, and has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities.

CHARLES EMMITT RYAN AB '89

United States | UFG Asset Management

Charles "Charlie" E. Ryan AB '89 is the chairman of UFG Asset Management as well as a general partner with Almaz Capital. Ryan's distinguished financial career combines top-level expertise and deep knowledge of both Russian and international markets.

Ryan began his professional career in 1989 with CS First Boston, where he was a financial analyst. After two years on Wall Street, he moved to Moscow in the early 1990s, during the chaotic early days of privatization, and went on to become an investment banker and venture capitalist, specializing in Russia. From 1991 to 1994, he was an associate and principal banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, where he played a crucial role in the city of Saint Petersburg's privatization program for industry and real estate.

In 1994, Ryan co-founded United Financial Group (UFG), an independent investment bank in Moscow. In 2005, when Deutsche Bank acquired 100 percent of UFG's investment banking business, Ryan was appointed chief country officer and chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank Group in Russia. In October 2008, he stepped down as chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank and became chairman of UFG Asset Management, an alternative asset manager in Russia. In addition to his role as chairman, he is also responsible for the overall management of UFG's private equity business. Ryan moved back to the United States in 2008 with his family.

Ryan received an AB cum laude from Harvard College in 1989, with a concentration in government.

SUZAN SABANCI DINÇER

Turkey | Akbank

Suzan Sabancı Dinçer is the chairman and executive board member of Akbank. She is a board member of Sabancı Holding. Sabancı Dinçer began her career in banking in 1986 and joined Akbank in 1989.

Sabancı Dinçer is a member of the Institute of International Finance board of directors and emerging markets advisory board, Harvard University's Global Advisory Council, Harvard Business School's Global Leaders Circle, and the Harvard Business School Istanbul Advisory Board. Sabancı Dinçer founded Akbank's International Advisory Board, a platform to discuss and evaluate global and local economic developments and their strategic implications for Turkey. She also sits on the Chatham House Panel of Senior Advisers. From 2010 to 2014, Sabancı Dinçer served as the chairman of the Turkish-British Business Council for two terms. Under her stewardship, Akbank became the first deposit bank in Turkey to issue a Global Reporting Initiative-rated sustainability report. It also pioneered the Carbon Disclosure Project in Turkey. She is a member of the board of trustees of Sabancı University, a founding member and board member of Endeavor Turkey, and serves on the advisory board of Akbank Sanat.

Sabancı Dinçer is on the board of directors of the Global Relations Forum and a TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association) member. She is also the Luxembourg Honorary Consul in Istanbul. In 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded Sabancı Dinçer the title of "Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)": in recognition of her proactive and influential contributions to the development of Turkey-UK relations. In 2014, Sabancı Dinçer was given the Order of Civil Merit (Orden del Mérito Civil) of the Kingdom of Spain by King Felipe VI for her contributions to the relations between the two countries and for her support of the cultural convergence.

Sabancı Dinçer received a BA in finance from Richmond College in the United Kingdom and an MBA from Boston University. She is married with two children.

CHELLA SAFRA

Brazil/United States | Moise Y. Safra Foundation

Chella Safra leads the Moise Y. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. She has supported a multitude of charitable causes for many years with her late husband, Moise Y. Safra, and she continues work on their shared objectives. Her mission covers diverse areas: science, education, culture, religion, and women and children’s health. Countless global organizations such as hospitals, universities, and museums have benefitted from Moise and Chella's generosity.

Together they established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics at Harvard in 2005. Later, the Moise Y. Safra Professorship, at Wharton, was endowed in 2014 by the Moise Y. Safra Foundation. The Foundation also initiated in 2016 an agreement with Harvard to establish the Moise Y. Safra Welcome Pavilion.

Chella is the treasurer of the World Jewish Congress and a member of the board of directors of OSCIP Americas Amigas, a non-governmental organization dedicated to increasing breast cancer awareness and early detection among disadvantaged women in Brazil. She is a member of the board of directors of the Friends of The Israel Museum and has held numerous leadership roles in a variety of international bodies. Chella serves as president of the board of the Women's Division of Keren Hayesod. She founded this group in 1986 to help and support new immigrants in Israel. In addition, Chella is a founder of the Moise Safra Community Center, scheduled to open in 2018, which will be a hub for Jewish social, recreational, cultural, and educational programming on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

While philanthropy is Chella's calling, she is also committed to giving of herself and has been deeply involved in numerous humanitarian roles. In this capacity, she volunteered for more than a decade at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, where she worked with patients. She has also collaborated closely with many other organizations, such as Crianca Sorriso, which supports disadvantaged children in Brazil's favelas.

Chella was born in Beirut and graduated from the Lycée Français–Institution Sainte Anne. She later moved to São Paulo and married Moise, with whom she had five children: Jacob, Ezra, Esther, Edmond, and Olga. Chella divides her time between Brazil and the United States and is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, and Arabic.

ALEJANDRO SANTO DOMINGO AB '99

United States | Quadrant Capital Advisors

Alejandro Santo Domingo AB '99 is a senior managing director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc. in New York City. He was a member of the board of directors of SABMiller plc. He was also the vice-chairman of SABMiller plc. for Latin America. He is a member of the board of Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI).

Mr. Santo Domingo is chairman of the board of Bavaria S.A. in Colombia. He is chairman of the board of Valorem, a company which manages a diverse portfolio of industrial and media assets in Latin America. Mr. Santo Domingo is also a director of Millicom; JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts); Keurig Green Mountain; Florida Crystals, the world's largest sugar refiner; Caracol TV, Colombia's leading broadcaster; El Espectador, a leading Colombian Daily; and Cine Colombia, Colombia's leading film distribution and movie theater company.

In the nonprofit sector, he is vice chairman of the Wildlife Conservation Society, a member of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET Channel Thirteen). Mr. Santo Domingo is a member of the Board and treasurer of Aid for AIDS, a foundation dedicated to helping HIV and AIDS patients. Furthermore, he is chairman of Alas, a foundation focused on early childhood development founded by artists such as Shakira and Alejandro Sanz. Mr. Santo Domingo is also a member of the board of DKMS Americas, a foundation dedicated to finding donors for leukemia patients. He is a member of the board of Fundación Pies Descalzos.

LUIS CARLOS SARMIENTO ANGULO

Colombia | Grupo Aval

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo is chairman of the board of Grupo Aval, a NYSE-listed financial services firm with a total of USD129 billion in assets. Aval is comprised of several financial institutions, including four commercial banks, an investment bank, and Colombia's largest severance and pension management company. These represent a 28% market share of the Colombian financial system. Grupo Aval also owns Banco de America Central (BAC), which controls 9.5% of the Central American financial market.

After graduating with highest honors in civil engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the youngest in his class, Sarmiento went on to become the largest land developer in the country, completing over 40,000 residential units during the course of 35 years. He has also completed numerous large scale commercial developments including Centro Mayor, the largest shopping mall in Colombia and winner of the International Real Estate Federation Award 2010; the Science and Technology Building at Universidad Nacional, which he donated to his alma mater; and Ciudad Empresarial Sarmiento Angulo, an eight-million-square foot LEED-certified mixed-use development. In infrastructure undertakings, his current projects of approximately 1,200 miles, will serve to establish major connective arteries throughout the country.

Since 2010, Mr. Sarmiento acquired a controlling stake in El Tiempo, the largest national newspaper in Colombia.

Mr. Sarmiento's philanthropic activity extends to health care, education, housing, and financial services. A state-of-the-art Center for Oncology Treatment and Research, currently in development, will operate as a non-for-profit corporation. He is founder and benefactor of Julio Garavito Engineering School, as well as a donor and chairman for 25 years of the Board of Colfuturo, whose mission is to send Colombian students abroad for post-graduate education at top international institutions. During said period, he signed and renewed an agreement with Harvard University to form Colombian leaders at Masters and PhD levels. In housing, he built and donated the Mirador de Usme, to provide dwellings for over 1,500 victims displaced by the severe winter floods of 2010. In the financial sector, he founded the Corporación Mocrocrédito Aval, a non-for-profit corporation to provide access to affordable credit for the micro entrepreneur.

STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN MBA '72

United States | The Blackstone Group L.P.

Stephen A. Schwarzman MBA '72 is chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Blackstone. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of the firm's development since its founding in 1985. The firm is a leading global asset manager with $368 billion Assets Under Management (as of March 31, 2017).

Mr. Schwarzman is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting education and schools. Whether in business or in philanthropy, he has always attempted to tackle big problems and find transformative solutions. In 2015, Mr. Schwarzman donated $150 million to Yale University to establish the Schwarzman Center, a first-of-its-kind campus center in Yale's historic "Commons" building. In 2013, he founded an international scholarship program, "Schwarzman Scholars," at Tsinghua University in Beijing to educate future leaders about China. At $450 million, the program is modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship and is the single largest philanthropic effort in China's history, coming largely from international donors. Mr. Schwarzman currently maintains his position as co-chair of the board of trustees of Schwarzman Scholars. In 2007, Mr. Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library, on whose board he serves.

Mr. Schwarzman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is co-chair of the Partnership for New York City and serves on the boards of the Asia Society and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as well as on the advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is a trustee of the Frick Collection in New York City and chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In 2007, Mr. Schwarzman was included in TIME's "100 Most Influential People." In 2016, he topped Forbes magazine's list of the most influential people in finance. The Republic of France has awarded Mr. Schwarzman both the France's Légion d'Honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Letters at the Commandeur level. Mr. Schwarzman is one of the only Americans to receive both awards, recognizing significant contributions to France.

He is also the chairman of the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, which is charged with providing direct input to the president of the United States from business leaders through a non-partisan, non-bureaucratic exchange of ideas.

Mr. Schwarzman holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management and on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors.

SRIBALA "BONNIE" SUBRAMANIAN

United States/India | Journalist/Author

Sribala Subramanian is a freelance journalist who focuses on environment and health. She most recently reported on Zika prevention in New York, plastic roads in India, and the rise of dengue fever in Brazil. Formerly, she was a reporter with TIME magazine in New York, where she covered business and international stories.

Subramanian's interest in public health stems from her years of volunteer work with community organizations. As a member of the board of the South Asian Council for Social Services, she created multiple presentations on health and nutrition, covering topics such as heart disease and diabetes. The presentations were translated into several languages and presented to groups in the New York City area. She also worked with the Child Center of New York on a campaign to support mental health clinics for the Asian community in Queens.

Subramanian graduated from St. Joseph's College in Bangalore, India. She received a master's degree in communication from California State University, Fresno and attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is married to Arvind Raghunathan, chief executive officer of Roc Capital Management. They are co-chairs of the advisory council of the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.

RAMAKRISHNA SUDIREDDY

United States | CHiL Semiconductor and Bayfleet Holdings, LLC

A 25-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, Sudireddy got his start as a computer and electrical engineer at the University of Massac. husetts before going to work at Bell Labs, where he was the chief architect and lead designer for a number of highly complex application-specific integrated circuits. He left Bell Labs to found Siltek Corporation, which provided ATM and SONET design services for companies, including Lucent, SGS Thomson, and Sun Microsystems. He went on to found Cimaron Communication in 1998, which sold to AMCC, where he served as senior vice president, general manager, and chief technology officer, managing a worldwide group of more than 1,000 engineers. From 2005 to 2010, Sudireddy served as chairman of the board at Sanovi Technologies, which provides disaster recovery and business continuity software for enterprise customers. He later founded CHiL Semiconductor, which was acquired by International Rectifier in 2011.

Sudireddy received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Nagarjuna University in India and his graduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He recently joined the Campaign for Harvard Divinity School as co-chair, is a member of the Harvard Divinity School's Dean's Council, and is a member of the HarvardX Kitchen Cabinet.

RATAN N. TATA AMP '75

India | Tata Group

Ratan N. Tata AMP '75 joined the Tata Group in 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed director-in-charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited in 1971. In 1981, he became chairman of Tata Industries, where he was responsible for transforming it into a group strategy think tank and a promoter of new ventures in high technology businesses. Tata was the chairman of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012. Upon his retirement, he was given the honorary title of chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, and Tata Chemicals.

He is also on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation, JPMorgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is the chairman of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, two of the largest private sector–promoted philanthropic trusts in India. He is the chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and also serves on the boards of trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California. The government of India honored Tata with its second-highest civilian award—the Padma Vibhushan—in 2008. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities in India and around the world.

Tata received a BArch degree from Cornell in 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.

SUNNY VARKEY

United Arab Emirates | GEMS Education

Sunny Varkey is the founder and executive chairman of the GEMS Education Group, the world's largest operator of kindergarten to grade 12 schools, with 250 worldwide that serve over 270,000 students in over 20 countries.

He also founded the Varkey Foundation, his family's foundation, seeking to improve global teacher capacity and promote universal access of quality education. The foundation has spearheaded the training of over 25,000 teachers and has pioneered an innovative technology platform to reach marginalized girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is also used to reach children in refugee camps. In Argentina, the foundation has designed and delivers a leadership program for school directors, convenes the Global Education & Skills Forum, and organizes the Global Teacher Prize, which seeks to celebrate the achievement of classroom teachers and uplift the status of the profession. In 2015, Sunny and Sherly Varkey committed to The Giving Pledge, established by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet.

In 2012, Varkey was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Education Partnerships. The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education conferred an award of distinction for Varkey's service to education in 2011. The Indian government honored him in 2009 with the Padmashri Award, one of the highest civilian honors, and the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Eminent Educationalist in 2008.

CLAUDE WASSERSTEIN

United States | Fine Day Ventures

Claude Wasserstein is the founder and CEO of Fine Day Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative and impactful technology, specifically in the financial, medical, aerospace, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and energy industries.

Born in France, Wasserstein is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and attended graduate school at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris. She began her career as a journalist for Newsweek, working out of the publication's Paris bureau. Prior to her investment career, she was a producer for CBS News, where she worked in the network's Dubai, Belfast, London, and Paris bureaus. In 1993, she won an Emmy for an investigative series featured on CBS’s 48 Hours.

Wasserstein is a trustee of the King Hussein Cancer Center Foundation, the American Hospital in Paris Foundation, and a life trustee at WNET Channel 13. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Metropolitan Museum International Council, and the Brookings Institution. In 2017, she was awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest order of merit.

She resides in New York City and is the mother of Jack ’21, Dash ’22, and Lucy.

PETER A. WEINBERG MBA '83

United States | Perella Weinberg Partners

Peter A. Weinberg MBA '83 is a founding partner and co-head of the advisory business at Perella Weinberg Partners, a leading independent financial services firm. Established in 2006, the firm provides advisory and asset management services to a global client base, including corporations, institutions, and governments.

Previously, Weinberg held a number of senior management positions at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected a partner in 1992. During his time there, he founded the Financial Sponsors Group; headed Investment Banking Services; headed the Communications, Media, and Telecom Group; co-headed the Global Investment Banking Division; and, for the last six years of his Goldman Sachs career, was chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs International. He also served on the firm's Management Committee and headed the European Management Committee.

Weinberg currently serves on the boards of overseers at the Columbia University Medical School and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a founding trustee of King's Academy in Jordan and serves on the board of the King Abdullah Fund for Development. He is also chair of the Executive Committee for Business at the Higher Education Forum and serves on the board of the Kravis Leadership Institute.

Weinberg received a bachelor of arts from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

SUSAN WOJCICKI AB '90

United States | YouTube

Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the world’s most popular digital video platform, used by over a billion people across the globe to access information, share video, and shape culture. An early champion of online video who was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube, Susan now oversees YouTube's content and business operations, engineering, and product development.

Prior to joining YouTube in February 2014, Susan was Senior Vice President of Advertising & Commerce at Google, where she oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics. She joined Google in 1999 as the company's first marketing manager and led the initial development of several key consumer products, including Google Images and Google Books. In 2002, Susan began working on Google’s advertising products, and over the next 12 years she led teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google’s monetization platforms.

Susan graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master's in economics from UC Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA. In 2015, Susan was named to Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

HANSJÖRG WYSS MBA '65

Switzerland/United States | The Wyss Foundation

Hansjörg Wyss MBA '65 has devoted a considerable portion of his personal energies and wealth to protecting open spaces and wild lands in the American West. He currently serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the Grand Canyon Trust. He is one of the founders of the AO Foundation, and remains an honorary member. Wyss serves as president of Fondation Beyeler and is a founder of Stiftung GegenwART in Basel, Switzerland, which funds art programs and scholarships for the Museum of Fine Arts Bern. Wyss is also chairman of the Wyss Foundation and the HJW Foundation, charitable organizations that work on environmental issues as well as social issues in immigration reform, health care for all Americans, fairness in the loan industry, and in women's health and reproductive rights, among many other projects.

Wyss is the recipient of the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, the Beatrice Ellerin Award from Harvard Business School's alumni association, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.

Wyss received a master's of science in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and a number of honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.

MARJORIE M. T. YANG MBA '76

Hong Kong | Esquel Group

Marjorie Yang is the chairman of Esquel Group.

Marjorie has a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Marjorie serves as deputy chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), with the purpose of providing advice to the Mayor of Seoul. She is also the appointed representative of Hong Kong, China to APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and a member of Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development, a high-level body to advise the Chief Executive on Hong Kong’s future development and strategies for driving innovation. She served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from 2003 to 2018.

Marjorie is dedicated to promoting education and innovative technologies. She is the co-chairman of the advisory board of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT and the chairperson of the Steering Committee of CoolThink@JC, which is created and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. She also serves as a member of various advisory boards including Harvard University, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Tsinghua University’s School of Economics & Management and Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. She has been the chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for six years until 2015.

Marjorie is a strong believer in sustainable development and environmental conservation and serves in the Advisory Council of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Natural Resources Defense Council in China.

Marjorie is an independent non-executive Director for The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

XIANG-DONG (X. D.) YANG AB '87, MBA '92

Hong Kong | Carlyle Asia Partners

Xiang-Dong (X. D.) Yang AB '87, MBA '92 is managing director and chairman of Carlyle Asia Partners, leading all corporate private equity investments in Asia (ex-Japan). He joined Carlyle in 2001 as co-head of the Asia buyout advisory team. Carlyle has been investing in Asia for nearly two decades and is one of the largest private equity investors in Asia. Prior to joining Carlyle, Yang spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a managing director and co-head of private equity investment in Asia (ex-Japan).

Yang is a member of the Board of Governors of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, and received an AB in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

SIDDHARTH YOG MBA '04

India | The Xander Group Inc.

Siddharth Yog MBA '04 is the founder of The Xander Group Inc., an emerging markets investment firm. Yog has been involved in all phases of the development of the firm's business, including chairing the investment committee for Xander India Funds until September 2016, and until December 2014 the credit committee for Xander Finance, a licensed Indian non-bank finance company. Xander currently represents ~US$2.7 billion of institutional equity capital across private equity real estate funds, related co-investments, managed accounts, and direct public and private investments and partnerships.

In 2007, Yog founded Virtuous Retail, an integrated retail real estate company. Currently, he is chairman of the board of Virtuous Retail South Asia Pte. Ltd., a leading integrated retail real estate developer, owner, and asset manager in India with a shopping center portfolio of ~5.5 MM square feet in prime city center locations. Virtuous Retail South Asia is its parent's Singapore-based, joint-venture with a large European public pension fund.

In August 2014, he was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School. As senior lecturer in the finance unit, he currently teaches an elective on investing in the second year of the MBA program in emerging markets. Previously, he taught courses on real property asset management.

From 1999 to 2002, Yog was founder director of CBRE's Asia Pacific Strategic Consulting practice based in Singapore and Hong Kong. Earlier, in 1995, he helped set up CBRE's India operations and was director for research, valuation, and strategy consulting. He has also worked at Bain & Co. in New York, Deutsche Bank Investment Management GmbH in Frankfurt, and Feedback Ventures in New Delhi.

He received an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar. He was also elected president of his class. Earlier, he earned an honors degree in economics from the University of Delhi and was elected head of the Students Union.

At Harvard University, Yog is a member of the Committee on University Resources. He is founder, trustee, and member of the governing body of the liberal arts–focused, not-for-profit Ashoka University in India. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the India Advisory Council of Lincoln Center in New York.

PAOLO ZAPPAROLI MBA '94

Italy | 92 Ventures

Paolo Zapparoli MBA '94 serves as president of 92 Ventures, a family office investing in private and public investments and in real estate.

Prior to 92 Ventures, Paolo was principal and chief executive officer of Synergo SGR SpA. Synergo is a private equity firm, investing with Italian entrepreneurs. Paolo managed Synergo from 2006 until the end of 2016.

Prior to joining Synergo, Paolo was with AIG Capital Partners, which he joined in 1999. He initially served as the chief executive officer of AIG Blue Voyage Fund and then as a managing director at AIG Capital Partners in New York.

In 1996, Paolo established the Istanbul office of Bain-Cuneo, a management consulting company. He went on to develop Bain-Cuneo's office into Turkey's second-largest management consulting business.

Prior to that, he held other positions, including serving as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in New York from 1994 to 1996; as assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Rome from 1990 to 1992; and as a research and development engineer at Telettra, Milano, and Granger Telettra in Santa Clara, California, from 1988 to 1990.

In addition to his MBA from Harvard Business School, Paolo has a degree in electrical engineering summa cum laude from Polytechnic University of Milan and a graduate degree in digital signal processing from Cefriel Graduate School of Milan.

Paolo is married to Elif B. Bilgi MBA '94, a managing director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

LEAH JOY ZELL AB '71, AM '72, PHD '79

United States | Lizard Investors LLC

Leah Joy Zell AB '71, AM '72, PhD '79 is the founder and portfolio manager of Lizard Investors LLC, an asset management firm that specializes in international small- to mid-cap equities. She is an expert in international investing, and a pioneer in the international small-cap category.

From 1992 to 2005, Zell was a co-founding partner and portfolio manager at Wanger Asset Management, a global small-mid cap equity specialist. During her tenure there, she was head of the international equities team; lead portfolio manager of the Acorn International Fund; and portfolio manager of the Wanger European Smaller Companies Fund. From 1984 to 1992, Zell was a global equity analyst at Harris Associates.

Zell serves as vice chairman and treasurer of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Horton Trust Company. She served on the Harvard University Board of Overseers from 2003 to 2009.

Zell earned her AB from Harvard College in 1971, and she received her PhD in modern European social and economic history from Harvard University in 1979.

ZHANG XIN

China | SOHO China Limited

Zhang Xin co-founded SOHO China in 1995. As CEO, she has led the company to become one of the largest developers of prime office real estate in China. SOHO China has developed over 5.5 million square meters (60 million square feet) in projects in Beijing and Shanghai.

After working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Travelers Group, she returned to Beijing to co-found SOHO China with her husband, Pan Shiyi. In 2005, Xin and Shiyi established the SOHO China Foundation, a philanthropic organization that promotes education to alleviate poverty. In 2014, the foundation launched the SOHO China Scholarships, an initiative providing financial aid for Chinese students at leading international universities, like Harvard.

Xin sits on the Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a bachelor's degree in economics from Sussex University and a master's degree in development economics from Cambridge University.

ZHENGDONG ZHU

China | China Distance Education Holdings Limited (CDEL)

Zhengdong Zhu is co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of China Distance Education Holdings Limited (CDEL) and is responsible for the overall management operations and strategic direction. Prior to co-founding the company, from 1995 to 1998 Zhu worked as an engineer, manager of the network department, and vice general manager in charge of marketing and sales at the Beijing Huake Hi-Tech Co., Ltd., a communications products and computer facilities company. From 1989 to 1995, Zhu worked as an engineer in the area of electronic communications technology at the research department of North China Institute of Electro-Optics Technology.

He received a bachelor's degree in radio engineering in 1989 from Southeast University, China, and a graduate certificate in 2001 from the management science department at Sichuan University, China. Zhu received an EMBA degree from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in 2011.

JAIME A. ZOBEL DE AYALA II AB '81, MBA '87

Philippines | Ayala Corporation

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala is the Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest business groups in the Philippines, with interests in real estate, banking, telecommunications, water, power, industrial technologies, infrastructure, healthcare, and education. Outside the Ayala Corporation, he is a member of various business and socio-civic organizations in the Philippines and abroad, including the JP Morgan International Council, the Mitsubishi Corporation International Advisory Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also sits on various advisory boards of Harvard University, including the Global Advisory Council, Harvard Business School (HBS) Board of Dean’s Advisors, and HBS Asia-Pacific Advisory Board, which he chairs. He is Chairman-Emeritus of the Asia Business Council and was the Philippine representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council from 2010–2015.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit in 2009, the Philippine Legion of Honor with rank of Grand Commander in 2010, and the Order of Mabini with rank of Commander in 2015 by the President of the Philippines. In 2017, he was recognized as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer (SDG) for his work in sustainable business strategy and operations. The first SDG Pioneer from the Philippines, he was one of 10 individuals recognized for championing sustainability and the pursuit of the 17 SDGs in business.

He received his BA in Economics (cum laude) from Harvard University in 1981 and MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1987.